A Lung on a Chip (3 of 3) (VIDEO)

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Chip in action: The device mimics the lung's response to bacteria. This image relates to an article that appeared in the June 25, 2010, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Dan Huh of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in Boston, Mass., and colleagues, is titled, "Reconstituting Organ-Level Lung Functions on a Chip."

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