Researchers develop living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip
Thursday, June 24, 2010 - 14:31
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have combined microfabrication techniques from the computer industry with modern tissue engineering techniques, human cells and a plain old vacuum pump to create a living, breathing human lung-on-a-chip. The device mimics the most active part of the lung, the boundary between the air sac and the bloodstream.