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This technique paves the way for more complex, customizable devices.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
The first entirely 3D-printed organon-a-chip with integrated sensing has been built by a fully automated digital manufacturing procedure. The 3D-printed heart-on-a-chip can be quickly fabricated and customized, allowing researchers to easily collect reliable data for short-term and longterm studies.
This approach to manufacturing may one day allow researchers to rapidly design organs on chips that match the properties of a specific disease or even...