25 September 2019
Our October edition of Research Round-up has collected three very different advances in our understanding of human organ systems.
In the Nature article “Conserved cell types with divergent features in human versus mouse cortex,” Hodge et al. analyzed the cellular composition of the human cortex at the single nucleus RNA level.
In the eLIFE paper “Merging organoid and organ-on-a-chip technology to generate complex multi-layer tissue models in a human Retina-on-a-Chip platform,” Achberger et al. demonstrate the creation of a sophisticated retina-on-a-chip with vasculature-like perfusion, which can recreate drug-induced retinopathy.
Gleiberman et al. describe the development of a microfluidic pancreatic islet-on-a-chip to accelerate efforts to study and develop effective treatments for diabetes, in their latest paper “Synchronized stimulation and continuous insulin sensing in a microfluidic human Islet on a Chip designed for scalable manufacturing.”
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