For successful Organ-on-Chip research, combining multiple areas of expertise is crucial. Even though there is constant feedback from one to the other discipline, in practice, they are very different: a biologist spends most of the day nourishing and photographing...
When Soul Meets Body: A journey of a silicon wafer to become an organ-on-chip Here I am, Hande is coming to the cleanroom to fabricate me. I’m just a bare silicon wafer right now. She has an approved flowchart and she will fabricate tiny little transistors with...
Today, NOCI researcher Jens Puschhof from the Hubrecht Institute, group of Prof. Hans Clevers, defended his thesis with cum laude honors. Thesis titled “Investigations on epithelial biology using organoid differentiation and co-cultures: Building representative models...
How close can we come to the human? Article review: Gut-brain axis interaction in Parkinson’s disease and the accuracy of recreating human physiology in model systems In the NOCI, one of our head missions is to make complex human tissue and organ systems in...
The European Organ-on-Chip Society, EUROoCS, will organize their 2021 Annual Meeting on 1-2 July 2021 as an online event. Due to the pandemic, the EUROoCS 2021 conference will again be organized in digital format. Although this cannot replace the atmosphere and...
NOCI researcher Heleen Middelkamp from the University of Twente has published a paper in Scientific Reports on January 26th, where she and the co-authors demonstrated that culturing neurovascular unit (NVU) cell types on microfluidic chips changes their gene...
