US TISSUE CHIP TECHNOLOGY ENABLES MORE EFFECTIVE DRUG TESTING
October 1st, 2014
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the US government’s medical research agency plans to use novel hybrids of IT and living tissue to help pharma companies test the potential effectiveness of new medicines. "Scientists in the USD17 million project aim to perfect so-called ‘tissue chips’, miniature models of organ tissues built on transparent microchips lined with living cells and designed to act like specific organs. These synthetic units allow researchers to probe the response of body tissues in ways that could not be handled in vivo, in animals and ...
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