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Life Sciences => Physiology & Medicine => Topic started by: thedoc on 11/11/2012 12:47:54

Title: Can a lung-on-a-chip mimic human disease?
Post by: thedoc on 11/11/2012 12:47:54
Mimicking human organs and diseases in the lab could help to investigate diseases and rapidly screen compounds to find new drugs, and now, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have made a lung-on-a-chip capable of modelling a human condition called pulmonary oedema.

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