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'Liver-on-chip' designed to predict drug toxicity

Posted: 18 Mar 2013  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe 

Keywords:medical devices  testing  processors 

[Summary of tips] Drugs that cannot be detoxified by the liver may cause poisoning or other lethal side effects. Thus, researchers from the A*STAR Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have engineered a device that mimics the natural tissue environment of the liver and test new drugs introduced to it to predict the level of toxici......
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