#lung-on-a-chip

[scienceconnections]

Wyss Institute’s Lung-on-a-chip

Made using human lung and blood vessel cells, this is a device about the size of a memory stick that acts much like a lung in a human body. A vacuum re-creates the way the lungs physically expand and contract during breathing.

SOURCE: Wyss Institute at Harvard || Image credit: Wyss Institute

[laboratoryequipment-blog]

Lung-on-a-Chip May Reduce Animal Testing In a London ceremony, Wyss Founding Director Don Ingber, received the NC3Rs 3Rs Prize from the UK's National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) for his innovative lung-on-a-chip – a microdevice lined by human cells that recapitulates complex functions of the living lung. "We believe that our human breathing lung-on-a-chip, and other organ chips we have in development, represent a first wave of exciting new alternative approaches to animal testing that hopefully will change how drug development is carried out in the future," Ingber says. "This award helps to validate this radical new approach on the global stage, and to strengthen our resolve to work with government agencies and pharmaceutical companies that have been supporting our work to pursue this alternative approach to animal testing." Read more: http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/02/lung-chip-may-reduce-animal-testing