Application Area: Intestinal Disease

Technologies 2

• Putting Biofilms to Work
  A team at the Wyss Institute sees biofilms as a robust new platform for designer nanomaterials that could treat inflammatory bowel diseases, clean up polluted rivers, manufacture pharmaceutical products, fabricate new textiles, and more. A novel protein engineering system called BIND, which stands for Biofilm-Integrated Nanofiber Display, could be the essential ingredient in tomorrow’s probiotic...
• Human Organs-on-Chips
  Clinical studies take years to complete and testing a single compound can cost more than $2 billion. Meanwhile, innumerable animal lives are lost, and the process often fails to predict human responses because traditional animal models often do not accurately mimic human pathophysiology. For these reasons, there is a broad need for alternative ways to...

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• Press Release Wyss Institute’s Organ Chips get smart and go electric
  June 14, 2017
• Translation News FDA to evaluate Organs-on-Chips
  April 11, 2017
• Press Release Wyss Institute’s human gut-on-a-chip goes viral
  February 1, 2017