Blood Brain Barrier on a Chip Could Stand in for Children in Pediatric Brain Research
Friday, December 5, 2014 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
Now bioengineering researchers at Temple University in Philadelphia have come up with an experimental workaround--a synthetic pediatric blood-brain barrier on a small chip--and have tested it successfully using rat brain endothelial cells (RBECs) from rat pups and human endothelial cells.