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...
Hi there! Welcome to our residence, welcome to your gut. As you can see it’s crowded in here. We’re living together with hundreds of different kinds of bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms. Together, you can call us your ‘intestinal microbiome’. You might wonder...
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...
