Model the-chip-in-hand to study corneal healing

To study how the cornea heals after injury, bioengineers at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center in Dallas designed a microfluidics device to create an artificial cornea. “Type I collagen is injected into the channels of the microfluidic device, and it polymerizes through the channels into a thread about the same diameter as a human hair. The fibrils are deposited onto glass coverslips, resulting in aligned collagen fibrils, similar to those present in corneal tissue. The researchers studied how keratocytes interact with different collagen fibril structures.”  MORE

Image Credit:   University of Texas Southwest Medical Center in Dallas