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Organ on a Chip Technology

Game-changing Technology- Your Organs Can Now be Reproduced on a Chip
“A revolutionary aspect of this technology is that different organ-chips [MORE]

Heart Organoids Screen for SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Inhibiting Drugs

Human embryonic stem cells derived cardiomyocytes screen SAR-CoV-2
“We [University of Cambridge] outline a screening platform using human embryonic stem cell-derived [MORE]

Miniature 3D Model of Bone Marrow

Miniaturized 3D bone marrow tissue model
A collaboration of Italian and American biologists “describe a miniaturized bone marrow tissue model that [MORE]

Reverting Cancer Cells to Stem Cell State

Brain cancer stem cells forming spheres on DN gel and SOX2 marker
Japanese scientists have developed a hydrogel—named DN for double [MORE]

Wyss’ “Body on a Chip”

Multi human organ chip
The Wyss Institute specializes in mind-boggling. Here, in text and a video, researchers show and automated, robotic [MORE]

Keeping Tissue Alive in the Lab

Heart slices in biomimetic culture system
Researchers at the University of Louisville have developed a culture system that can keep slices [MORE]

Artificial Liver for Testing RNAi-Based Drugs

MIT Liver model
In making a living hepatic device, MIT researchers were able to mimic a human liver’s microenvironment.  They then [MORE]

Kidney Organoids More than Stem Cells

Kidney Organoids with rogue cells
It was a surprising finding that 10-20% of cells in kidney organoids actually were cells of [MORE]

MIT’s Physiome-on-a-Chip

MIT Physiome-on-a-Chip
The human body has nearly 80 organs (depending on their definitions).  Knowing how a drug interacts with these different [MORE]

3-D Jet Writing vs. 3-D Printing

3D Jet Writer
In order to make more authentically-sized tissues for researching anti-cancer therapeutics, Purdue University and University of Michigan researchers [MORE]

Measuring Heat of Drug-Target Interaction

Chemistry Lab
Chemical reactions almost always generate heat, and knowing that biochemists at McGill University have applied isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) [MORE]

Intestine-on-a-Chip

Organs-on-Chips
Microengineers at Cedars Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute (Los Angeles, CA) have created an “intestine-on-a-chip” that simulates a [MORE]

Mouse Intestines Grown from Stem Cells

Model of Intestine Grown from Stem Cells
Tufts University scientists have created an organ-on-a-chip model of mouse small intestines. Cells in [MORE]

Wyss’ Organ-on-a-Chip for Modeling Influenza

Organ-on-a-Chip
It has been 99 years since the great influenza pandemic that killed many more people than had died in World [MORE]