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Testing isolated human tissue is in no way comparable to a whole organism. Even if you tested all different human tissue types separately, you haven't accounte
by refurb 4y ago
Testing isolated human tissue is in no way comparable to a whole organism.
Even if you tested all different human tissue types separately, you haven't accounted all for interactions between tissues. Say liver metabolism to a molecule that is toxic to bone marrow.
- photochemsyn 4y agoIdeally one could construct a whole model of the human circulatory system in this manner, with a digestive tract module, a liver module, a kidney module, etc. Probably still a bit sci-fi at this point.
- refurb 4y agoThats pretty much a human then. For example livers arent made up just liver cells (hepatocytes) there are 3 other major cell types. In vitro heptacytes are commonly used today to measure metabolism and toxicity and you get a lot of good info, but they dont substitute an actual liver.