That's a problem for researchers trying to construct artificial tissues and organs, and one that two
separate teams of engineers may have just solved.
Not exact matches
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.
The
teams, led by Maurizio Porfiri, associate professor
of mechanical and aerospace
engineering at NYU - Poly, published two
separate papers in the journal PLOS ONE.
The chief
engineer for Hyundai's performance cars said
separate teams at the Namyang R&D center in Korea (in the picture above) and the company's technical center in Europe, located in Russelsheim, Germany, are working closely for the development
of the first Hyundai N car.