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3D-printed Heart-on-a-chip with Integrated Sensors

November 6, 2016

Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing.  Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated and [more...]

Scaling Up Tissue Engineering

March 18, 2016

Confocal microscopy image showing a cross-section of a 3D-printed, 1-centimeter-thick vascularized tissue construct showing stem cell differentiation towards development of bone cells, following one month of active perfusion of fluids, [more...]

Heartbeat On a Chip

June 21, 2015

Heartbeat Chip Test (Image credit: Michigan Engineering)  The ability to accurately test drugs and therapies for human use is a goal we desperately need to reach. Often animals are used to test drugs intended for human use, which not only [more...]

Microfluidics for Accelerated Drug Assays

April 12, 2015

Multiple microwells on Yevgeny Berdichevsky’s assay chips make it possible to test up to 18 drug candidates at a time. (Image Credit: Linda Nye) Approximately 125,000 Americans each year develop epilepsy, a brain disease marked by [more...]