The Apple Core - Mini-Organs

Computer chips mimicking human life is no longer science fiction, but reality! Presenter Pascal Tan, visits a hospital lab and finds out that scientists can make mini organs-on-chips from your own blood or urine. Mini-lungs, brains, livers, intestines, hearts: these miniature organs-on-chips can simulate the working of your own personal human organs, perfectly. Pascal witnesses the creation of a genuine, beating, miniature heart and sees how it reacts to medicine. With these organs-on-chips, scientists can very efficiently test which medicine works best for each individual. "The Apple Core" (Het Klokhuis) is an educational children’s program on NTR Television in the Netherlands. The series aims to teach kids between seven and twelve years old as much as possible about the society they are growing up in. Each episode covers one subject. The subjects vary from highly scientific to cultural and in a mix between documentary and drama, each subject is encountered in different ways.