Micro-Organ Devices

Effects of drugs can be tested realistically, without experimentation on animals.

Micro-organ devices (MODs) are being developed to satisfy an emerging need for small, lightweight, reproducible, biological-experimentation apparatuses that are amenable to automated operation and that impose minimal demands for resources (principally, power and fluids). MODs are intended to overcome major disadvantages of conventional in vitro and conventional in vivo experimentation for purposes of investigating effects of medicines, toxins, and possibly other foreign substances.