The medications we use today, to treat everything from coughs to cancer, were developed through a series of steps to figure out how safe and effective they are. It’s a long and expensive process, from lab tests to human subjects, before the drug can be made widely available. 

HemoShear Therapeutics, a biotech research company in Charlottesville, Virginia has found a way to make that process faster and safer, using “organs on a bench.” (“Bench” is a term used in science to describe work done or observed in a laboratory, at the workbench.)