{"id":105665,"date":"2020-04-18T14:06:47","date_gmt":"2020-04-18T21:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/israel-us-researchers-create-mini-human-on-a-chip-to-speed-up-drug-testing"},"modified":"2020-04-18T14:06:47","modified_gmt":"2020-04-18T21:06:47","slug":"israel-us-researchers-create-mini-human-on-a-chip-to-speed-up-drug-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/israel-us-researchers-create-mini-human-on-a-chip-to-speed-up-drug-testing","title":{"rendered":"Israel, US researchers create \u2018mini Human-on-a-Chip\u2019 to speed up drug testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/israel-us-researchers-create-mini-human-on-a-chip-to-speed-up-drug-testing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two new studies by researchers in Tel Aviv University and Harvard University on the subject were published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Organs-on-a-chip were first developed in 2010 at Harvard University. Then, scientists took cells from a specific human organ \u2014 heart, brain, kidney and lung \u2014 and used tissue engineering techniques to put them in a plastic cartridge, or the so called chip. Despite the use of the term chip, which often refers to microchips, no computer parts are involved here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/start-up-daily-signup\/?utm_source=sui-articles&utm_medium=middle-link&utm_campaign=signup-buttons\"> Get The Start-Up Israel\u2019s Daily Start-Up by email and never miss our top stories<\/a>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/start-up-daily-signup\/?utm_source=sui-articles&utm_medium=middle-link&utm_campaign=signup-buttons\"> Free Sign Up<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new studies by researchers in Tel Aviv University and Harvard University on the subject were published in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering on Monday. Organs-on-a-chip were first developed in 2010 at Harvard University. Then, scientists took cells from a specific human organ \u2014 heart, brain, kidney and lung \u2014 and used tissue engineering techniques [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}