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Airway Muscle-On-A-Chip Could Lead To Better Asthma Treatments
Headlines & Global News "Every year asthma costs many tens of billions of dollars, significant productivity due to lost work and school days, and even lives," said senior author Kevin Kit Parker, Tarr Family Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics at the Harvard … |
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Gizmag |
Airway muscle-on-a-chip to aid in search for new asthma treatments
Gizmag Unfortunately for asthma sufferers and those looking to develop new treatments to help them, animal models traditionally used to test potential new drugs don't always mimic human responses. Joining lungs and guts, scientists at Harvard's Wyss Institute … Airway muscle-on-a-chip 'simulates asthma in humans' Harvard-made lung muscle could yield asthma insights Airway Muscle-On-A-Chip Could Lead To Better Asthma Treatments |
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Headlines & Global News |
Airway muscle-on-a-chip 'simulates asthma in humans'
Medical News Today Asthma affects more than 300 million people worldwide and is responsible for around 250,000 deaths every year. It is also a leading cause of emergency room visits and hospitalization among children. There are a number of medications that can help … Airway Muscle-On-A-Chip Could Lead To Better Asthma Treatments Harvard-made lung muscle could yield asthma insights Airway muscle-on-a-chip mimics asthma |
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Medical Xpress |
Airway muscle-on-a-chip mimics asthma
Medical Xpress The majority of drugs used to treat asthma today are the same ones that were used 50 years ago. New drugs are urgently needed to treat this chronic respiratory disease, which causes nearly 25 million people in the United States alone to wheeze, cough … |
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Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences |
Airway muscle-on-a-chip mimics asthma
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Cambridge/Boston, Mass – September 23, 2014 – The majority of drugs used to treat asthma today are the same ones that were used 50 years ago. New drugs are urgently needed to treat this chronic respiratory disease, which causes nearly 25 million … |
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