To cure diseases medicine needs to be tested. Berend explains about how he combined a chip and real human skin to test medicine on.
My field of expertise is Electrical Engineering… but with a twist: there are no wires involved, but biology! Biology is one of the most fascinating and futuristic fields in the world.
The fundamental science itself is of great interest to me, but I also strongly believe we can improve the world in the very near future with applications that are being built today. Growing a part of a human organ on an electronic chip to model diseases or test new drugs? The future is closer than you might think.
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