From Be Giant
The Mind-Boggling Lab Growing Tiny Human Hearts
Milica Radisic’s team is creating little kidneys, mini brains and beating hearts that could speed up life-saving drug testing
Moore’s Law, that famous maxim of computer science, holds that chips double in power every two years. The field of medicine is subject to a more demoralizing axiom: Eroom’s Law (that’s Moore backwards), which dictates that the life-saving science of drug discovery gets slower and more expensive with time, doubling in cost every nine years. It now takes an average of 12 years and $1 billion—and counting—to bring a new medicine to market.
Continue reading in Be Giant