Farms of ‘artificial humans’ to replace animal testing within three years, say experts as they develop microchips which mimic our organs perfectly.

The micro-chipped human machines due to be available in threeyears time will remove the need for experiments that claim the lives of up to 90 million animals each year, according to the Sunday Times.

Artificial organs such as lungs, liver, and kidneys are already being used to test cosmetics, chemicals and drugs.

Uwe Marx, a Berlin-based tissue engineer for developers TissUse, said the development of a ’10 organ chip’ was expected within three years in a move that could ‘revolutionise drug development’.

“If our system is approved by the regulators, then it will close down most of the animal-testing laboratories worldwide,” said Uwe Markx – a tissue engineer from Technische Universitat Berlin and founder of TissUse, a firm behind the technology.

Marx anticipated human farms could be made…