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.

The Organ-on-a-Chip (OOAC) technology simulates various organ systems depending on the specific cell types seeded onto the ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Before, it was inconceivable: risk-free biomedical testing on living human organs. But new “organs-on-chips ...

Professor Milica Radisic (ChemE, BME) has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...

From beating hearts to breathing lungs, organs-on-chips are some of hottest new tools for human biology research. Although these devices may bear closer resemblance to computer components than human ...

Organ-on-a-chip The advance of technology has allowed organ-on-a-chip technology, which uses microfluidics to mimic the physiology and functionality of human organs on a chip.

The Nikon A1R HD25 confocal system with NIS-Elements AI software enables rapid, deep, quantitative imaging of living organs-on-chips. The rapid proliferation of complex 3D cell and tissue culture ...

Researchers have developed a novel multi-organ-on-a-chip that can demonstrate toxicity more accurately than standard methods. Current drug testing practices have resulted in a large number of drugs ...

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.

Aparna is a freelance science writer with a PhD in bioinformatics and genomics at Harvard University. Her writing has also appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Popular Science, PBS NOVA, and more.

Innovative organ-on-chip specialist Dynamic42 and ESQlabs, experts in digital life sciences solutions, have successfully developed a three-organ system, in close collaboration with Consumer Health ...