Tag: “Organs-on-chips”

  • Nation & World

    Blood-brain barrier chip performs human-like drug and antibody transport

    Wyss Institute scientists have developed chip technology that mimics the blood-brain barrier in humans. The new models will help researchers study drugs to treat cancer, neurodegeneration, and other diseases of the central nervous system.

    7 minutes
    A transparent plastic model of a human skull
  • Nation & World

    The first fully 3-D-printed heart-on-a-chip

    A new approach to manufacturing organs-on-chips developed by Harvard researchers could cut the length and cost of clinical trials significantly.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Human-gut-on-a-chip model offers hope for IBD sufferers

    In a new study, the Wyss Institute’s human-gut-on-a-chip technology is used to co-culture gut microbiome and human intestinal cells, which could spur innovation of novel therapies for inflammatory bowel diseases.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Wyss Institute’s organs-on-chips develops into new company

    The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University announced on Monday that its human organs-on-chips technology will be commercialized by a newly formed private company to accelerate the development of pharmaceutical, chemical, cosmetic, and personalized medicine products.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    ‘Heart disease-on-a-chip’

    Harvard scientists have merged stem cell and “organ-on-a-chip” technologies to grow, for the first time, functioning human heart tissue carrying an inherited cardiovascular disease. The research appears to be a big step forward for personalized medicine, because it is working proof that a chunk of tissue containing a patient’s specific genetic disorder can be replicated…

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Organs-on-chips evaluate therapies for lethal radiation exposure

    A team at the Wyss Institute at Harvard has received a $5.6 million grant from the FDA to use its organs-on-chips technology to test human physiological responses to radiation and evaluate drugs designed to counter those effects.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New way to model human disease

    Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have mimicked pulmonary edema in a microchip lined by living human cells. They used this “lung-on-a-chip” to study drug toxicity and identify potential new therapies to prevent this life-threatening condition.

    5 minutes