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The Integrated Heart/Cancer “Body-on-a Chip”

Body on a Chip
Engineers at the Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences have created a microfluidic “body-on-a-chip device for [MORE]

Engineered Human Colon Organoids

Colon
In mice studies, researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital have begun to reveal the cellular signals that give rise to the [MORE]

Pharmacoscopy

Scientist who Developed Pharmacoscopy High-Throughput Microscope
Quoting directly: “By combining state-of-the-art high-throughput fluorescent microscopy with single cell image analysis and novel [MORE]

Heart-on-a-Chip

Heart on a Chip
In the abstract of an article from the journal Lab on a Chip, researchers at the Lawrence [MORE]

Growing Liver Organoids in a Microfluidic Device

Microfluidics
Being able to grow liver organoids in a microfluidic device for drug testing in advance of animal or human experiments [MORE]

Lab Grown Lungs Successfully Transplanted in Mice

Mice
Using a biodegradable scaffold, bioengineers at the University of Michigan have successfully grown miniature lung tissue from human stem cells [MORE]

Automating Patch Clamping

Patcherbot
Among the several “omics” of molecular biology is channelomics which refers to ion channels in all cellular membranes. Channelopathies are [MORE]

Muscle-on-a-Chip for Testing Cardiac Drugs

Cardiomyocytes
Stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes have not yet proven to be effective replacements for damaged hearts. While stem cells do adhere to [MORE]

Printing Antibodies on Paper for Drug Testing

Printing Morphine Antibodies on Paper
VTT, Finland’s government technology research agency near Helsinki, has reported on a means for printing morphine [MORE]

A ”Beating Heart” Chip

Heart Cells
It’s no small feat to test drugs on living human heart tissue ex vivo. But that’s what bioengineers at [MORE]

Pediatric Blood-Brain Barrier Chip

Brain-on-a-Chip
The naturally-occurring blood-brain barrier is a mesh of capillaries within which endothelial cells are spaced so tightly that they form [MORE]

First Lab-Grown Contracting Muscle

Lab Grown Human Muscle
Bioengineers at Duke University took human stem cells that had progressed to being myogenic precursors and [MORE]

A Polymer Artificial Cell with Synthetic DNA

Plastic Cell
This is a must-read to believe: “The researchers used a water droplet as the structure upon which they built [MORE]

3-D Printing of Biological Tissues, Almost

3-D Printer Oxford Droplet Network
Oxford University scientists have developed a 3-D printing method that mimics natural tissue.  The printed [MORE]