Medicine & TechnologyA tsunami, as we know it, is often caused by earthquakes that occur under the ocean. However, there are other factors and events that could cause this destructive tidal wave.
Genoskin recently developed ex vivo skin models from natural human skin donated by patients who undergo surgery to replace animal models and predict clinical results.
With the use of a database of snow pillow measurements, the team was able to validate the model, a snow pillow measures snow-water equivalents through the pressure they exerted by the snow on top of it, and also as a pair of large independent data sets, one from western North America, the other from the northeastern United States
According to the pioneers of the human-on-a-chip in vitro system, they announced the use of its unique multi-organ model to successfully measure the concentration and metabolism of two known cardiotoxic small molecules over time, to accurately describe the drug behavior and toxic effects in vivo. Furthermore, the findings support the potential of body-on-a-chip systems to transform the drug discovery process.