MIT’s Physiome-on-a-Chip
October 30, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
The human body has nearly 80 organs (depending on their definitions). Knowing how a drug interacts with these different systems should be an advantage over testing with animal models. MIT engineers have developed a combined microfluidics chip that has tissue samples of lung, liver, gut, endometrium, brain, heart, pancreas, kidney, skin and skeletal muscle. This isn’t a complete physiome on a chip, but it covers ten of the thirteen major organs and might be constructed to have more. MORE
Image Credit: MIT, Victor O. Leshyk