In 2010, his team created the first lung-on-a-chip, a small in vitro model that recreates the cellular interactions that take place within the lung and exposes these tissues to the same biomechanical ...

Lung-on-chip provides new insight on body's response to early tuberculosis infection eLife Funder European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO Fellowship), Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur ...

The FDA has extended a collaboration with the UK firm CN Bio to investigate a “lung-on-a-chip” model to investigate inhaled drugs. In a statement the firm said the move follows the success of ...

As an example, the lung-on-a-chip mimics a breathing human lung, with human lung cells in contact with human capillary blood vessel cells. “And then [by adding simulated breathing motions] the whole ...

The first reported organ-on-a-chip device was a lung-on-a-chip developed by the Wyss Institute at Harvard University in 2010. Since then, the field has rapidly evolved, with researchers developing ...