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Creating human organs on chips
I’ll have a kidney and chips please. (Courtesy: James Dacey)
By James Dacey reporting from Boston, Massachusetts
Having left a rain-soaked Bristol on Monday, I was greeted by an even more rain-soaked Boston on Tuesday. Fortunately, I spent my first day in the US under a roof at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. I was there to learn about an intriguing technology that reproduces the functionality of human organs on polymer chips about the size of a little finger.
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