A guide to the organ-on-a-chip

Organs-on-chips (OoCs) are systems containing engineered or natural miniature tissues grown inside microfluidic chips. Organs-on-chips are microfluidic systems containing miniature tissues with the aim of mimicking human physiology for a range of biomedical and therapeutic applications.

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• 1 To better mimic human physiology, the chips are designed to control cell microenvironments and maintain tissue-specific functions.
• 2 Combining advances in tissue engineering and microfabrication, OoCs have gained interest as a next-generation experimental platform to investigate human pathophysiology and the effect of therapeutics in the body.
• 3 There are as many examples of OoCs as there are applications, making it difficult for new researchers to understand what makes one OoC more suited to an application than another.

Understanding this could lead to better treatments, improved diagnostics, or a deeper grasp of how the human body works — benefiting patient care globally.

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