Perfused human organs versus Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Novel drugs have to go through mandatory pre-clinical testing before they can be approved for use in clinical trials. In essence, it is a form of bench-to-bedside (N2B) translational medicine, but the wastage rate of target candidates is immensely high. Effects s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leung Lawrence
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2009-01-01
Series:Journal of Translational Medicine
Online Access:http://www.translational-medicine.com/content/7/1/9