Cervix Chip Illustration (IMAGE)

Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard

Cervix Chip Illustration

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The team modeled the cervical wall by growing human cervical epithelial cells in one of two parallel channels running through a microfluidic device the size of a USB memory stick and cervical fibroblast cells in the adjacent channel. The channels are separated by a porous membrane which allows the two cell types to communicate similarly as in a woman’s body. 

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Wyss Institute at Harvard University

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