Siberian State Medical University (SSMU) is working on creating an "organ-on-a-chip" technology. It will allow assessing the toxicity of gene-therapeutic drugs. This was reported by the university's press service.
"Organs-on-chips" are microfluidic platforms that are revolutionizing the pharmaceutical and medical industries. The project aims to create a model of a secondary human liver tumor node compatible with a microfluidic chip for screening promising gene therapy products belonging to the class of advanced medicinal products and RNA-based drugs.
Scientists will create a liver organoid with implanted single tumor cells — micrometastases — and combine it with microfluidic technologies. The implementation of the project will contribute to the development of cell biology, pharmacy and pharmacology.
Earlier www1.ru reported that in Nizhny Novgorod they are growing an artificial organ in a test tube.
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