Researchers Create Vagina-on-a-Chip

Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute developed a vagina-on-a-chip to study how probiotics and drugs affect vaginal health.

Harvard’s Wyss Institute
Wyss Institute

Over the years, we’ve discussed the development of a wide range of body-on-a-chip systems. Scientists create these theoretical “body parts” in order to emulate human physiological responses to drugs to determine drug efficacies and potential toxicity in organs. According to a recent LiveScience article, the latest creation in that vein is the vagina-on-a-chip, a small device containing live human cells that replicate the cellular environment inside the vaginal canal. 

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