As astronauts venture further into space, their exposure to harmful radiation rises. Researchers from Columbia University are ...

Researchers have created various other organs-on-chips, including kidney, liver, and heart chips. In January, the Wyss Institute announced the creation of a human body-on-a-chip: multiple ...

a static environment that doesn’t let cells behave as if they are in the human body. Cilia inside the lung-chip. Microscope image courtesy of Emulate, Inc. The organ-chip consists of transparent ...

It is a «three –dimensional organ on a chip» that allows scientists to better observe how cells grow on the human body. It acts as a simulator, showing the effect treatments can have on the ...

The ambition is grand and the timeline spans decades: the development of nanomachines dispersed in the human body, performing detection ... bring it to an implanted chip, where analysis is ...

Individual cells in your body are constantly ... the world's first "vagina-on-a-chip". The device was around 1 inch (2.54 centimeters) long and contained live human cells which could be inoculated ...

$48 million research funding award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to support the utilization of cutting-edge body-on-a-chip technologies aimed at studying and ...

These compartments will be designed to represent healthy and diseased states in a manner reflective of human physiology. The development of the body-on-chip device was made possible through a co ...

The brain chip is designed ... slimmer than a strand of human hair, on the part of the brain that controls "movement intention" - the part that tells other parts of the body what to do.

These peptides occur naturally in the human body and regulate the sleep cycle. The living pharmacy chip would let users control the timing and dosage of the peptides through an app on a smartphone.