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Combining microfabrication techniques with modern tissue engineering, lung-on-a-chip offers a new in vitro approach to drug screening by mimicking the complicated mechanical and biochemical behaviors of a human lung.

Free-standing foams designed and manufactured with a 3D printer. 

A flexible microfluidic organ-on-a-chip system.

This image was included in a 2001 exhibition, "On Growth and Form: Textiles and the engineering of nature," at the Textile Museum of Canada.

Continuous tensional integrity in the actin cytoskeleton within, and between, living cells.

By adapting techniques taken from the microchip industry, Institute faculty can create matrix adhesive islands of any size, shape.

Fluorescent micrograph showing focal adhesion anchoring complexes, actin filament bundles, and nuclei of a spread endothelial cell.

Stick-and-string tensegrity model that Ingber used to present his cellular tensegrity theory.

A microfluidic prototype that selectively draws out infectious pathogens as blood flows through.

Scanning electron micrograph of a pancreatic tumor cells that remains round and disorganized on a stromal matrix.