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Living Human Intestinal Lining recreated On Chip

16-Feb-2018

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Microengineered Intestine-Chips mirror living tissue.

Formed intestinal folds as they do in the human body.

Opens the door to personalized testing of drug treatments.

Individual's own stem cells could seed chip to test multiple drugs.

Study was part of is an initiative of Cedars-Sinai Precision Health.

The study was published in the Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal.

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Cedars-Sinai

Hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center.

Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology (CMGH)

Medical journal publishing digestive biology research that covers a broad spectrum of themes in gastroenterology, hepatology, and pancreatology.

Clive Svendsen

Professor and Director at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Emulate

Company creating living platforms that emulate the complexities of human biology

Geraldine A. Hamilton

President and Chief Scientific Officer at Emulate, Inc.

Robert Barrett

Assistant Professor at Cedars-Sinai.

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Regenerative Medicine