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Apr 18, 2020

Israel, US researchers create ‘mini Human-on-a-Chip’ to speed up drug testing

Posted by in categories: bioengineering, biotech/medical, computing, neuroscience

Two new studies by researchers in Tel Aviv University and Harvard University on the subject were published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering on Monday.

Organs-on-a-chip were first developed in 2010 at Harvard University. Then, scientists took cells from a specific human organ — heart, brain, kidney and lung — and used tissue engineering techniques to put them in a plastic cartridge, or the so called chip. Despite the use of the term chip, which often refers to microchips, no computer parts are involved here.

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