TNPSC Thervupettagam

Organ-on-Chip Technology

September 23 , 2024 5 days 97 0
  • The Government of India announced the ‘BioE3’ policy to drive innovation in the biotechnology sector.
  • For this, it has established biomanufacturing facilities, bio-AI hubs, and bio-foundries.
  • The policy also aims to boost the development of biologics such as gene therapy and cell therapy.
  • The global organ-on-chip market is expected to be worth around $1.4 billion by 2032.
  • An organ-on-chip is a small device designed to recreate the dynamic functions of some human organ in a controlled microenvironment.
  • They are expected to be better than the cell cultures and animal models, that researchers currently use at testing the effects of a drug.
  • India amended the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules 2019 to permit the use of human organs-on-chips.

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