Organ-on-a Chip is a an promising tool to study various chronic disease such as cancer and autoimmune disorder
An Organ-on-a Chip , also known as an organ-on-board, is a fully mobile multi-chambered 3-dimensional microfluidic tissue chip that mimics the internal processes, motions, and biological response of almost all organ systems and whole organs, a kind of living artificial organ. It constitutes the subject matter of major ongoing biomedical research, more especially in bio-MRI. It has also been used to study different pathological and medical diseases like cancer, inflammatory diseases, autoimmune diseases, sepsis, trauma, neurological disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, herpes, genital herpes, leukemia, and many others. Organ-on-a Chip is considered to be a tissue microcosm of the human body; it is the miniature version of a mouse or a rat brain and can be compared to a mini-brain. Its main function is as a template for generating living cells, but it can also be used as a drug screening and pre-cancer staging system. It is considered that once such a device is built ...