Just check out this fantastic TEDx Talk about this group of scientists who are creating these little "homes" for cells for safe and more effective drug testing (among the many other uses that this technology will have).
You can check out the video on YouTube here!It's relatively easy to imagine a new medicine, a better cure for some disease. The hard part, though, is testing it, and that can delay promising new cures for years. In this well-explained talk, Geraldine Hamilton shows how her lab creates organs and body parts on a chip, simple structures with all the pieces essential to testing new medications — even custom cures for one specific person. (Filmed at TEDxBoston)
But, like, wow, can we talk about how cool this is?