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Jul. 27, 2012
Building Organs, On One Microchip at a Time
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Bioengineers are developing microchips, about the size of a thumb, that can behave like human organs. Donald Ingber, director of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, discusses how the “organ-on-a-chip” works and why the technology could replace the animal model for drug testing.
Video courtesy the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University
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Don Ingber
Professor of Vascular Biology, Harvard Medical School
Professor of Bioengineering, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Director, Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering
Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts
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