But new “organs-on-chips” technology is emulating the liver, brain, lungs, intestines, and more on a chip the size of a USB stick. Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research ...

A protein called HER3, which is present on the blood–brain barrier, helps the tumour-invading protein cross from the ...

What is an Organ-on-a-Chip? An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic device that simulates the key functions and physiological responses of a specific human organ or organ system on a miniaturized scale.

Innovative organ-on-chip specialist Dynamic42 and ESQlabs, experts in digital life sciences solutions, have successfully ...

A recent review published in the journal Engineering delves into the significant advancements and potential of CRISPR ...

Also based in Germany, Dynamic42 spun off from the University Hospital Jena in 2018. The biotech’s main offerings are its ...

Researchers from Columbia University are simulating the effects of space radiation here on Earth to determine its impact on human physiology using multi-organ tissue chips. Their work documents ...

Emulate's 'organ-on-a-chip' is part of a new generation of technology which mimics certain tissue environments within the human body, providing a more accurate prediction of how drugs might work ...

Ingber has spent a large part of his career developing better tools and technologies to study organ physiology. In 2010, his team created the first lung-on-a-chip, a small in vitro model that ...

Preclinical drug evaluation, especially for cardiotoxicity, is a critical stage in the drug development process.