Scientists at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute have created silicon chips that mimic the function of living human organs. Their organs-on-chips technology won the 2015 Design of the Year award from the Design Museum in London. It’s the first time the award has gone to a design from the field of medicine, beating off competition from Google’s self-driving car, a project to clean up plastic from the sea and an advertising campaign to convince people to buy misshapen fruit. The micro-devices work by recreating the tissue interfaces of human organs inside a transparent polymer “chip,” so the behaviors of bacteria, drugs and human white blood cells can be easily monitored through a microscope. These new devices could end animal testing and revolutionize the development of new drugs. Learn more at the Wyss Institute.