Lung-on-a-Chip Passes a Crucial Test

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have shown that their lung-on-a-chip technology can mimic a life-threatening lung condition. They also report that scientists can uncover new aspects of the disease using the lung chip that would not be found with animal experiments.

The study, published in todays Science Translational Medicine, is the first definitive demonstration that the institutes organ-mimicking chips, which include a gut, a heart, and a kidney, can be used to model a disease and even test candidate drugs.

The lung-on-a-chip device is a clear, flexible thumb-sized block of polymer perforated by two tiny c…
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