{"id":78944,"date":"2018-05-23T07:42:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/novel-organ-on-chip-platform-for-drug-screening"},"modified":"2018-05-26T07:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-26T14:07:24","slug":"novel-organ-on-chip-platform-for-drug-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/novel-organ-on-chip-platform-for-drug-screening","title":{"rendered":"Novel organ-on-chip platform for drug screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-organ-on-chip-platform-for-drug-screening2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technologies, presents this week at its technology forum ITF 2018 (Antwerp, May 23\u201324), a novel organ-on-chip platform for pharmacological studies with unprecedented signal quality. It fuses imec\u2019s high-density multi-electrode array (MEA)-chip with a microfluidic well plate, developed in collaboration with Micronit Microtechnologies, in which cells can be cultured, providing an environment that mimics human physiology. Capable of performing multiple tests in parallel, the new device aims to be a game-changer for the pharmaceutical industry, offering high quality data in the drug development process.<\/p>\n<p>Every year a handful of new drugs make it to the market, but in their wake tens of thousands of candidate drugs didn\u2019t make the cut. Nevertheless, this journey will have taken a decade and costs billions. The fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/drug+development\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug development<\/a> is so time-consuming and costly, is because of the insufficiency of the existing methodologies for <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/drug\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">drug<\/a> screening assays. These current assays are based on poor cell models that limit the quality of the resulting data, and result in inadequate biological relevance. Additionally, there is a lack of spatial resolution of the assays, resulting in the inability to screen single cells in a cell culture. Imec\u2019s novel organ-on-chip platform aims to address these shortcomings and challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Imec\u2019s solution packs 16,384 electrodes, distributed over 16 wells, and offers multiparametric analysis. Each of the 1,024 electrodes in a well can detect intracellular action potentials, aside from the traditional extracellular signals. Further, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/imec\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">imec<\/a>\u2019s chip is patterned with microstructures to allow for a structured cell growth mimicking a specific organ.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-05-organ-on-chip-platform-drug-screening.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;05-organ-on-chip-platform-drug-screening.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imec, the world-leading research and innovation hub in nano-electronics and digital technologies, presents this week at its technology forum ITF 2018 (Antwerp, May 23\u201324), a novel organ-on-chip platform for pharmacological studies with unprecedented signal quality. It fuses imec\u2019s high-density multi-electrode array (MEA)-chip with a microfluidic well plate, developed in collaboration with Micronit Microtechnologies, in which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78944","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79043,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78944\/revisions\/79043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}