London’s Design Museum has chosen a strange but promising technology as the Design of the Year for 2015. Having even outdone Google’s self-driving car, the Human Organs-on-Chips was given top marks in innovation. Developed by Donald Ingber and Dan Dongeun Huh from Harvard University’s Wyss Institute, these microchips covered in human cells are designed to imitate the complexity of human organ tissue.
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