Tag: Organs-on-Chips

19 September, 2014

Organs on chips

The title sounds really impressive, but it is a reality, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering associated with the Harvard Medical School have developed a series of cell culture devices with computer memory size of the tip of pencil. These devices contain channels and voids covered by tissue cells that mimic the physiology of a human body. These devices produce a level of functionality […]