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Researchers have come up with a gut-on-a-chip microdevice lined by living human cells that mimics the structure, physiology, and mechanics of the human intestine. As a more accurate alternative to conventional cell culture and animal models, the microdevice could help researchers gain new insights into intestinal disorders, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, and also evaluate the safety and efficacy of potential treatments...

CNET Australia
After describing a living, breathing "lung-on-a-chip" in Science back in 2010, Harvard researchers are now reporting in the journal "Lab on a Chip" on their latest endeavour: a human gut-on-a-chip...

Science Business
Biomedical engineers at Harvard University have created a miniature electronic device with living human cells that mimics the structure, physiology, and mechanics of the human intestine. The team from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering published its findings online in the journal Lab on a Chip...

Science Business
Biomedical engineers at Harvard University have created a miniature electronic device with living human cells that mimics the structure, physiology, and mechanics of the human intestine. The team from Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering published its findings online in the journal Lab on a Chip...

Yahoo! India
Researchers have come up with a gut-on-a-chip microdevice lined by living human cells that mimics the structure, physiology, and mechanics of the human intestine. As a more accurate alternative to conventional cell culture and animal models, the microdevice could help researchers gain new insights into intestinal disorders, such as Crohn's disease...

IEEE Spectrum
Inside your body, about 25 feet of intestines are folded and curled. Yet for all that expansive biology, bioengineers at Havard say they've mimicked the essential functions of the human intestine on a chip about the size of your thumb...

Gizmag
In an effort to provide a more accurate alternative to conventional cell culture and animal models, researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a microdevice that mimics the structure, physiology, and mechanics of the human intestine.

Smart Planet
About 25 feet of intestines are folded and curled up inside our bodies. Harvard bioengineers now say they’ve created a tiny device that mimics all the essential functions of our intestines. The gut-on-a-chip (pictured) microdevice is lined by living human cells that recreates the 3D structure, physiology, and mechanical behavior of our guts. It even supports the growth of live microbes...

Discovery News
Investigating intestinal disorders is sometimes difficult because the environment in a person's gut is complicated; damaging it during analysis could interfere with how the body digests food. Researchers at Harvard University's Wyss Institute decided to find a better way...

Nature
A coin-sized device created by a team at Harvard University mimics the structure and physiology of the human intestine by supporting gut microbes and imitating the organ's rhythmic motion. Donald Ingber and his colleagues at the Wyss Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, built the chip (pictured) out of a clear polymer...

Harvard Gazette
Harvard engineer Robert J. Wood has been named one of two recipients of the Alan T. Waterman Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Wood, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and a core member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard, shares the honor with Scott Aaronson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Popular Mechanics
Practitioners of traditional origami can fold tiny, colorful bits of paper and make high art. But the growing group of scientists who practice DNA origami can fold genetic code itself, creating intricate nanoscopic materials with incredible properties...

Harvard Magazine
...Professor Wood -- founder of the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory and a member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering (originally featured here) -- noted that his research into fabricating robots that were inspired by, and mimic the behavior of, bees and flies, is wildly interdisciplinary...

BioTechniques
When asked how, and why, she ended up making magnetic yeast, Pamela Silver, professor in the department of systems biology at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, replied: “I have always had a general interest in engineering different inputs into organisms so they can act as sensors of their different environments...."

Correio Braziliense
Usar estruturas do corpo humano para criar robôs parece uma ideia saída de filmes de ficção. Pensar que tais máquinas poderiam agir no organismo e tratar uma série de doenças soa ainda mais surreal. Pois pesquisadores do Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, da Escola Médica de Harvard...

BostInno
Butterflies and bees are some of the only magnetically-aware organisms in the world. That was, until researchers from the Wyss Institute and Harvard Medical School put a twist on yeast and made it magnetic. Yes — magnetic yeast, and their findings suggest that magnetism could be induced in a variety of cells, allowing them to potentially communicate with machines...