There was a multi-media article (video slides with audio track) on The Economist's "Babbage" which included comments on "Organ on a Chip" specific to lab testing using chips that have a limited number of cells that mimic behavior of organs, but on a chip. Idea proposed in the article/interview is the linking of chips together, to have multiple organs form a body (body on a chip) to see drug interrelationship on a body. (One example provided is a drug to help one organ may produce chemical toxic to the liver.) They go on to further predict application to move from "body on a chip" to "patent on a chip." With a patient biochemistry from their genetic information and epigenetic information duplicated into multiple organi chips to create a copy of their "body" we could actually see patient medicine turn into real science! (Real science: a system of testing where duplicate, but identical testing groups are created, and one is maintained as a control group, to compare each experiment against.)
http://www.economist.com/multimedia?bclid=1294626183001 Sorry if you encounter a paywall, I tried to summarize the portion of the article that was relevant, so you would not need to listen if you did not want to, but have a reference for the source of information I used in citing this topic.
I'm not requesting this as a topic, but wanted to bring it up if you are looking for things to discuss on the topic of personalized medicine.
(I am not part of the BioHacking Village.)
http://www.economist.com/multimedia?bclid=1294626183001 Sorry if you encounter a paywall, I tried to summarize the portion of the article that was relevant, so you would not need to listen if you did not want to, but have a reference for the source of information I used in citing this topic.
I'm not requesting this as a topic, but wanted to bring it up if you are looking for things to discuss on the topic of personalized medicine.
(I am not part of the BioHacking Village.)
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