{"id":241447,"date":"2026-07-23T20:11:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/artery-on-a-chip-helps-predict-stroke-risk"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:11:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T01:11:04","slug":"artery-on-a-chip-helps-predict-stroke-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/artery-on-a-chip-helps-predict-stroke-risk","title":{"rendered":"Artery-on-a-chip helps predict stroke risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artery-on-a-chip-helps-predict-stroke-risk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Predicting an individual\u2019s risk of ischemic stroke is difficult because thrombosis embolization\u2014the process of a blood clot detaching from the area where it formed, traveling and then sticking in another blood vessel\u2014is based on factors unique to each person.<\/p>\n<p>In a study published in <i>Cell Biomaterials<\/i>, researchers developed a tool to address this challenge: an artery-on-a-chip platform that can replicate a patient\u2019s specific vascular structure and blood flow dynamics, called a \u201cphysical twin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis idea was born out of a critical clinical gap,\u201d says author Lining Arnold Ju of the University of Sydney in Australia. \u201cWe know that even patients at \u2018low risk\u2019 can suffer from severe or fatal strokes. We wanted to find a better way to predict this risk.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predicting an individual\u2019s risk of ischemic stroke is difficult because thrombosis embolization\u2014the process of a blood clot detaching from the area where it formed, traveling and then sticking in another blood vessel\u2014is based on factors unique to each person. In a study published in Cell Biomaterials, researchers developed a tool to address this challenge: an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241447","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}