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3D printing with living tissues may help treat joint diseases
Degeneration of cartilage and other joint tissues is a major cause of disability.
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New lung ‘organoids’ in a dish mimic features of full-size lung
'Mini organs' may aid in understanding and treating respiratory diseases.
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A new approach to Organ-on-a-Chip
Draper's Joe Charest explains how synthetic organoids can lead to safer drug testing, and why organ-on-a-chip technology is the future of drug discovery...
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Mini brains from the petri dish
A new method could push research into developmental brain disorders an important step forward.
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Harvard researchers develop multiregional brain-on-a-chip
Harvard University researchers have developed a multiregional brain-on-a-chip that models the connectivity between three distinct regions of the brain.
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Draper and Pfizer partner on human organ-on-a-chip technology
The companies will collaborate to create unique versions of Draper’s Microphysiological Systems (MPS) technology, with the aim of creating more effective disease models...
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Organs-on-chips gearing up to disrupt the microbiome market
The human microbiome, comprising of the complex and dynamic microbial communities found on the human body, is essential to our health and observed differences in its composition between patients and healthy people have lead to speculations about the involvement of bacteria in disease development. Such differences have provided evidence towards…
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Researchers grow 3-D heart and liver tissues using AngioChip
7 March 2016 | By Victoria White
AngioChip is a powerful platform for discovering and testing new drugs, and could eventually be used to repair or replace damaged organs...
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Select Biosciences Second Annual Organ-on-a-Chip World Congress and 3D-Culture, July 7-8, 2016, Boston, USA.
18 February 2016 | By Select Biosciences
Select Biosciences is organizing its 2nd Annual World Congress focusing on Organs-on-Chips—an extremely important and cutting-edge field of important in basic research as well as pharmaceutical discovery and development...
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Discover the latest developments in Organ-on-a-Chip
18 February 2016 | By SELECTBIO
SELECTBIO is delighted to announce Organ-on-a-Chip Europe 2016, which will be held on 5 - 6 April in Cambridge, UK...
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Mimetas awarded funding for organ-on-a-chip neurotoxicity models
22 December 2015 | By Victoria White
The funding is awarded in the context of the Neuratect CRACK IT Challenge to support development of better predictive, high-throughput, animal-free models for neurotoxicity of medicines and chemicals...
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Microfluidic technology: the next-generation drug discovery tool
Microfluidic miniaturisation, or the so-called ‘lab-on-a-chip’ concept, now encroaches on the fields of biology, medicine and pharmacology, and the nature of microfluidic technology (small volumes and high-throughput integration of fluid connections) means that it is outperforming conventional bench work. There has been an incredible need for microfluidic technology in the…
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Bionic liver organs explain toxicity of paracetamol
17 August 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have created a liver-on-chip device mimicking human physiology, leading to the discovery of a new mechanism of paracetamol toxicity...
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Organ-on-a-Chip and 3D-Printing in the Life Sciences Conference, Boston, July 8-9, 2015 features international roster of speakers.
8 June 2015 | By Select Biosciences
Select Biosciences is delighted to announce that its Organ-on-a-Chip and 3D-Printing in the Life Sciences Conference, Boston, July 8-9, 2015 features all the international key opinion leaders in the organ-on-a-chip/body-on-a-chip field as well as 3D-bioprinting fields...