Search results for organ-on-a-chip

Cell & Microbiology Jan 27, 2023

Fish-on-Chips: An optofluidic platform to investigate the neural and chemosensory axes of zebrafish

Neuroscientists study chemosensory processing by establishing chemical cues and the corresponding behavioral responses to record large-scale neuronal activity. In a new report now published in Nature Communications, Samuel ...

Biochemistry Jan 11, 2023

Organ-on-a-chip models allow researchers to conduct studies closer to real-life conditions

Bringing a new drug to market costs billions of dollars and can take over a decade. These high monetary and time investments are both strong contributors to today's skyrocketing health care costs and significant obstacles ...

Analytical Chemistry Jan 6, 2023

Investigating the intestinal transport of mercury ions with a gut-on-a-chip device

The transport of mercury ions across intestinal epithelial cells can be studied for toxicology assessments by using animal models and static cell cultures. However, the concepts do not reliably replicate conditions of the ...

Polymers Dec 30, 2022

How science fiction predicted recent high-tech developments in chemistry

Real-world technology is often foretold by science fiction. In 1927, characters in the film Metropolis made video calls to each other. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry hung flat-screen color monitors on the walls of the ...

Cell & Microbiology Dec 22, 2022

Generating human-like neural networks via cellular reprogramming

A study published in the journal Stem Cells Reports reveals that a cellular reprogramming methodology allows the creation of neural networks that reproduce unique characteristics of human cells—different to those obtained ...

Quantum Physics Dec 12, 2022

Did physicists make a wormhole in the lab? Not quite, but a new experiment hints at the future of quantum simulations

Scientists made headlines last week for supposedly generating a wormhole. The research, reported in Nature, involves the use of a quantum computer to simulate a wormhole in a simplified model of physics.

Optics & Photonics Dec 1, 2022

Particle physics in a humble glass chip: How quantum optics illuminates the nature of the quark

Scientists from the University of Rostock, Germany were able to recreate fundamental physical properties from the realm of elementary particle physics in a photonic system. The results are published in Nature Physics.

General Physics Nov 30, 2022

Researchers find junction is key in how pore space geometry impacts transport of substances through fluids

What laws govern how chemicals pass through filters? How do droplets of oil move through layers of stone? How do blood cells travel through a living organism? A team of researchers led by the Technical University of Munich ...

Agriculture Nov 9, 2022

Climate change means farmers in West Africa need more ways to combat pests

The link between climate change and the spread of crop pests has been established by research and evidence.

Optics & Photonics Nov 7, 2022

Silicon photonic microelectromechanical systems take a step forward

In recent years, global digitalization has seen unprecedented acceleration. Video streaming and video conferencing in home office and remote learning settings has resulted in a spike in residential broadband usage. Emerging ...

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