One Millionth the Size of Real Organs! These Lab Created Human Organs Are Amazing

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.