As we all know, it has been more than a year since online meetings and working from home became new reality. From being used to see each other very often for retreats and practical trainings within our NOCI community, we moved to the world of online activities and...
The Travel Award (€250, sponsored by Roche) of the EUROoCS 2021 meeting went to Milica Dostanić (NOCI PhD-student from Delft University of Technology) for the presentation of her work on ‘An engineered heart tissue platform with integrated pacing...
Christine Mummery has contributed to the year book of Diligentia, De Koninklijke Maatschappij voor Natuurkunde. For the article in Dutch see here. Een impressie van ‘jouw lichaam-op-een-chip’. Met dank aan Berend van Meer, Mees de Graaf, Claire Glashan. Summary...
Imagine to be a student (How do you know…?) that needs to catch up with classical mechanics as fast and as soon as possible (That might occur at some point, anyway… Not only to me, I mean.). Wouldn’t you then like to be able to call up on Newton and ask for a...
A few weeks ago, Lena Sophie Koch (NOCI- PhD student) discussed with us in her NOCI news item how close we can get to the human with a review on the gut-brain axis. This seems to be a burning question for many researchers of various organ-on-chip fields. So today I...
Last week, I was in an online meeting in which multiple people admitted rather apologetically that they are super enthusiastic and passionate about… well.. erm.. ‘standards’. And yes, ‘standards’ may not be the first answer you’d expect when asking someone about their...
