In biomedical research, so-called organs-on-a-chip, also referred to as microphysiological systems, are becoming increasingly ...

There’s one area of surprising agreement in the often adversarial relationship between conservatives and the scientific community: the need to phase out animal testing in biomedical research. The new ...

suggesting that these two drugs could be effective to treat liver injuries caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection. Organ-on-a-chip technologies, such as the ones described in this study, will help to ...

Scientists from TU Wien and Keio University have developed a scalable method to create artificial blood vessels in ...

Leading the alternative methodology sector are organ-on-a-chip (OOC) models, or microphysiological systems ... Figure 1: A confocal image of MASH liver tissue generated using MPS. Credit: CN Bio.

Using an Organ-on-a-chip (OOC) approach, the microarchitecture of liver tissue can be closely reproduced by growing physiologically relevant compilations of primary liver cells (including those ...

The accurate replication of the biological environment within the chip, including the structure ... for targeted treatments in various organs, including liver, kidney, and lung.

Now these organs on chips, also known as microphysiological ... “genius grant,” designed a crude early version of a liver chip in the late 1990s: a flat silicon chip, just a few hundred ...

In one high-profile deployment, CN Bio's liver-on-chip system was used to ... suggest a growing regulatory openness to organ-on-chip data within drug evaluation processes. Crucially, such FDA ...

Organs-on-a-chip are miniature devices that use human cells to mimic organs. Harvard bioengineer Donald Ingber and his colleagues demonstrated that cells configured into a liver-on-a-chip ...