A
culture, even one of long duration, is modifiable
by human effort under the impact of a new ideology — witness the radical transformation of China under Communist influence or the other revolutionary changes now taking place in the Orient from an emergent nationalism.
In an
effort to overcome these limitations, a team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering led
by its Founding Director, Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., had previously engineered a microfluidic «Organ - on - a-Chip» (Organ Chip)
culture device in which cells from a
human intestinal cell line originally isolated from a tumor were
cultured in one of two parallel running channels, separated
by a porous matrix - coated membrane from
human blood vessel - derived endothelial cells in the adjacent channel.