Human Organ-on-Chips
Since the race to find cure for COVID-19 started among different health care industries, it has now become evidently known to everyone that what a long period of extensive testing one novel drug has to take in order to be introduced to the market and finally to the consumer. All drugs developed and available in the market until now had to undergo several trials in order to be deemed safe for human use. One such trial requires these novel drugs to be tested on animals, this is because animals have organs and organs systems that function and react very closely like the human organs and organ systems. Drugs are tested on animal models first then they are tailored subsequently for human consumption. Several animals such as mice, rats, dogs, cats, monkeys, chimpanzees, rabbits, frogs and many other types of animals are killed each year for the sake of medical education experimentation, drug development and testing, food and cosmetic testing and testing of various types of chemicals. Unfort...