POSTS TAGGED AS organ-on-a-chip

Heart on a Chip

 
New miniature heart could help speed heart disease cures
Boston University engineers “demonstrate how high-precision fabrication can enable scaled-down modeling of [MORE]

Toward Patient-on-a-Chip Microfluidics

Lung-on-a-Chip
“Experts hope that multi-organ chips will eventually lead to the creation of patient-on-a-chip technology. This precise approach would entail creating [MORE]

First Lymphangion Chip

Introducing organs-on-chips to the lymph system.
“To engineer this new device, [bioengineers at Texas A & M University] first developed a [MORE]

Intestinal Organoids

Next generation organoids
Intestines have the highest cell turnover in the body.  But could lab-grown intestinal organoids mimic that behavior?  The [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]

Smart Materials for Capillary-Like Microvessels

Self assembly of nanoparticles
British bioengineers in London and Nottingham report their development of a new material that self-forms into blood [MORE]

Organ Chips in Space

Dan Huh and Andrei Georgescu adapting the organ-on-a-chip technology for space
More than half of the Apollo astronauts have experienced bacterial [MORE]

Promoting Vascularization in Kidney Organoids

Culturing kidney organoids under flow
To make muscle cells from human stem cells, mechanical stress, causing stretching and contraction, has to [MORE]

Photonic Biosensor Monitors Oxygen in Organs-on-a-Chip

Biosensor
What tissues of the body do depends on the level of oxygen concentration, and different tissues have various oxygen levels.  [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]

Kidney-on-a-Chip Goes to the ISS

International Space Station
According to a pharmacy professor at the University of Washington, weightlessness accelerates kidney diseases. “In the microgravity environment [MORE]

Placenta-on-a-Chip

Placenta on a Chip
In order to learn more about the biochemistry of the human placenta, the National Institute of Child [MORE]

Organs-on-a-Chip Move Toward Commercialization

With support from DARPA and pharmaceutical companies, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (Harvard University SEE VIDEO ON [MORE]