Researchers develop living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip (w/ Video)

Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 13:00 in Health & Medicine

Researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital Boston have created a device that mimics a living, breathing human lung on a microchip. The device, about the size of a rubber eraser, acts much like a lung in a human body and is made using human lung and blood vessel cells.

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