Gut-on-a-Chip
June 26, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
The video embedded in this piece shows a very remarkable development from the Wyss Institute at Harvard: a microdevice that mimics the human intestine. About the size of a thumb drive and made of a silicon polymer, the device has a flexible porous membrane lined with living human intestinal cells. Because of the living cells, the bioengineers who created this device believe it is better than animal models for testing drugs and observing gastrointestinal phenomena. MORE
Image Credit: Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and SmartPlanet.com