Creating a Tiny Human Body on a Chip

Multimedia · Wed Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2016

OSTI ID:1241904

Hunsberger, Maren; Soscia, Dave; Moya, Monica

LLNL science communicator Maren Hunsberger takes us "Inside the Lab" to learn about the iChip (In-vitro Chip-based Human Investigational Platform) project at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "One application of the iChip system would be to develop new pharmaceutical drugs," explains Dave Soscia, LLNL postdoc. "When you test in a mouse for example, it's not as close to the human system as you can get. If we can take human cells and put them on devices and actually mimic the structure and function of the organ systems in the human, we can actually replace animal testing and even make a better system for testing pharmaceutical drugs."

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• OSTI ID: 1241904
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

60 APPLIED LIFE SCIENCES
CHIP
IN-VITRO CHIP-BASES HUMAN INVESTIGATIONAL PLATFORM
ICHIP
ORGAN SYSTEMS
ORGANS
CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS
TISSUES
POLYMERS
PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER
CARDIAC SYSTEM