They say the microscopic organoids will save researchers valuable time and money when developing new pharmaceuticals.
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00:00Organoids are simplified lab-grown organs used to speed up the drug research process,
00:08and they're usually much smaller than the real thing.
00:10But now researchers have produced a lab model of a human body that's on a microscopic
00:14level, one millionth the size of its real-world counterpart.
00:17They utilized a series of techniques to biofabricate all of the most important organs needed when
00:22testing the side effects of new pharmaceuticals, including 3D representations of the brain,
00:27heart, liver, lungs, testes, the vascular system, and the colon, using human tissue
00:31samples and stem cells to begin the process.
00:34Once grown, researchers can then situate them together to test out a new drug's effects
00:38on the collective tissue.
00:39According to a study published in NCBI, only one in 5,000 drugs makes it from early development
00:45all the way to consumers, which is why tiny lab-grown organoids providing 3D representation
00:49of all the body's most important systems could not only save researchers time and money,
00:54it could also save lives.