The lung-on-a-chip can mimic both the physical and mechanical qualities of a human lung.
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Successes in the lab mostly don’t translate to people. Research models that better mimic the human body could close the gap.
The pipes imprinted on microfluidic chips are about the size of a human hair, and in many ways are like miniaturizing a chemical manufacturing plant.
(Katherine Elvira)
Artificial cells on tiny microfluidic chips can provide early insight into how new cancer drugs behave in cells, and why certain kinds of cancer are more resistant to chemotherapy treatment.
Micro life.
Wyss Institute at Harvard University
A so-called “organ-on-chip” device could speed up the way drugs are developed. And it’s just been named the London Design Museum’s design of the year.
A small plastic chip with the capacity to house various strains of bacteria may help successfully treat infection in cystic…