Organs-on-Chip Technology Reveals New Drug Candidates for Lou Gehrig's Disease (IMAGE)

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Organs-on-Chip Technology Reveals New Drug Candidates for Lou Gehrig's Disease

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ALS on a chip with hiPS-derived optogenetic motor neuron from ALS patient (green) and hiPS-derived skeletal muscle cells (purple) was established to represent ALS pathology.

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Tatsuya Osaki/MIT

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