{"id":153069,"date":"2022-12-17T21:22:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T03:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-create-worlds-first-vagina-on-a-chip-to-combat-bacterial-diseases"},"modified":"2022-12-17T21:22:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T03:22:48","slug":"scientists-create-worlds-first-vagina-on-a-chip-to-combat-bacterial-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/scientists-create-worlds-first-vagina-on-a-chip-to-combat-bacterial-diseases","title":{"rendered":"Scientists create world\u2019s first \u2018Vagina-on-a-Chip\u2019 to combat bacterial diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-create-worlds-first-vagina-on-a-chip-to-combat-bacterial-diseases.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have engineered the first-ever \u201cVagina on a Chip\u201d in the world that replicates the human vaginal tissue microenvironment in vitro, <i>Scientific American<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/first-vagina-on-a-chip-will-help-researchers-test-drugs\/\">reported<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is composed of the human vaginal epithelium and underlying connective tissue cells and it replicates many of the physiological features of the vagina, <a href=\"https:\/\/wyss.harvard.edu\/news\/a-breakthrough-in-bacterial-vaginosis-treatment-for-womens-health\/\">according<\/a> to Harvard.<\/p>\n<p>Best of all, it can be inoculated with different strains of bacteria allowing researchers to study their effects on the organ\u2019s health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have engineered the first-ever \u201cVagina on a Chip\u201d in the world that replicates the human vaginal tissue microenvironment in vitro, Scientific American reported on Wednesday. It is composed of the human vaginal epithelium and underlying connective tissue cells and it replicates many of the physiological features of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153069","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}