Episode 3:Disease models and Organ-on-a-chip

Very often substance testing on animals is not or just quite
limited able to predict the human situation. This becomes very
apparent in the development of new drugs, which often in so-called
clinical studies (research on the human) turn out as effectless
and/or show side effects, though they were tested on animals
before. This podcast episode deals with the possibilities of using
animal-free methods for drug development. Some diseases and
so-called disease models are also presented and their benefits and
the challenges of their development are explained.