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...
My life as an organ-on-a-chipDiary notes from the perspective of an organ-on-chip MondayFinally, it’s Monday morning, which means that I get some new medium (food) and that I get to play the main role in some exiting experiments that are planned this week. Let me...
As we all are embedded in the midst of the new-normality and with the constant alert that the year 2020 brought to our daily lives, it is also good to step back trying to gain some perspective on what we have done together and plan for this 2021 For NOCI PhD students...
