Biofabrication w/ Ritu Raman
FUTURES Podcast
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Organs on a Chip
Organs on a chip are essentially very iny versions of an organ. They could be something that's a sub millimeter scale and lives within a little plastic devicor or chip with some fluid flowing through it. The idea is to create a miniature version of a human tissue or organ, and clearly, if we could use my cells even better, then we would have the most perfect model system of something we could try in the lab. This gets back to this idea of probably not in animals, because i am not a mouse, and there are many things that work in mice thato aren't going to work in me.
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