Microfluidic platform for diabetes drug testing covered in ETH Industry News

Article on new microfluidic testing platform that will help diabetes researchers to find new drugs and to get deeper insights into underlying biological mechanisms in ETH Industry News.

Enlarged view: Schematic of a hanging drop
Graphic representation of organ-​on-chip platform, which enables researchers to maintain sample tissues in hanging drops.

Recent work on perfusion of human pancreatic-islet microtissues, produced by InSphero, in microfluidic organ-on-a-chip platforms, developed at BEL, was covered in an interview of ETH Industry News with Patrick Misun (BEL) and Burcak Yesildag (InSphero). The developed platform technology opens new prospects for diabetes research and represents a powerful tool for studying insulin release dynamics at high temporal resolution.

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external page InSphero Press Release

external page Original Research Article in Advanced Biosystems

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