Yes you read it right.
The scientists at Harvard Univeristy has succeeded in manufacturing an artificial human lung on a microchip.
This lung is made with the help of actual human and blood vessel cells, and a micochip. This working, respirating lung is much simpler than the actual human lung, and the package is small having the size of an eraser.
Researchers say that they are working to build different organs and assemble to from the complete organ systems.
The aim of such developments is to use them for testing of medicines, rather than using animals as test subjects. (Somewhere those rats must be having a party.)
An explanation by Don Ingber, Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
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