Donald Ingber - Biologically Inspired Engineering - Organs on a Chip!

Interview with Dr Donald Ingber - Topics: Organs on a Chip!, Medical Challenges, Moore's Law & Eroom's Law, FDA Funding, Tensegrity, The Wyss Institute: A Glimpse Into the Future. wyss.harvard.edu
Look at Eroom's law (spell Moore's law backwards) - "indicates the number of new drugs approved per billion US dollars spent on R&D has halved roughly every nine years since 1950. When you adjust for inflation that is a huge eighty-fold drop!" buildingpharmab...
The article mentions the 'Cautious Regulator' problem : the progressive lowering of risk tolerance that raises the bar on safety for new drugs, which makes R&D both costlier and harder.
"In the end organic as well as anorganic matter is made from the same building blocks. The only difference is how the atoms are arranged." - Donald Ingber
"I saw [tensegrity structures] for the first time when I was an undergraduate at Yale in a sculpture class that I just happened to take the same week that I learned to culture cells. And that, as they say, is the beginning of the rest of my life." - Donald Ingber
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The Interview was Filmed & Edited by Adam Ford scifuture.org
We are grateful for the support of the ICT for Life Sciences Forum (ict4lifesciences.org.au) for the opportunity to interview Dr Ingber.
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[@zarkoff45]

Never heard of Eroom's law until now. While computer's get more effective, doubling every two years or so, the money spent on developing new drugs has halved in effectiveness. So, now they are trying to develop a new way to tackle the problem.
I also like how Donald Ingber tells the story of how he got his basic insight from an art class, not a science class.

[@scfu]

Agreed - he sounds like a scientist to got their through genuine interest.
I have a lot of hope in this strain of technology since there are some big names backing it.

[@mirusvet]

Amazing interview Adam, thank you. Great to hear so many insights from an actual scientist!!!

[@scfu]

Yes, what Donald and the Wyss institute are doing is really amazing! So important to near-term transhuman goals

[@leightonjulye]

shows intelligent design that nature has better technology