According to a CNN article, mice and rats may be replaced by chips one day. The article reports scientists are experimenting with a chip that "...looks like a standard microscope slide, but it holds hundreds of tiny white dots loaded with human cell cultures and enzymes. It's designed to mimic human reactions to potentially toxic chemical compounds,..."
Former AALAS president and now senior science adviser to the National Association for Biomedical Research, Dr. Taylor Bennett, is quoted in the article.
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