Brain-on-a-Chip

About half of all traumatic brain injuries involve damage to neural axons, and result in a range of conditions from mild concussion to coma and persistent vegetative state—all involving chemical changes in the brain.  To diagnose axonal injuries, biomedical researchers at Rutgers have develop a “Brain-on-a-Chip” microsystem “capable of visualizing individual axons and their responses to mechanical injury. This is done by utilizing organotypic slices taken from specific areas in the brain that are susceptible to injury during a traumatic brain injury event.” MORE

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