Brain Tissue Kept Alive for a Month on Microfluidic Device / Il tessuto cerebrale è rimasto vivo per un mese su un dispositivo microfluidico
Brain Tissue Kept Alive for a Month on Microfluidic Device / Il tessuto cerebrale è rimasto vivo per un mese su un dispositivo microfluidico Segnalato dal Dott. Giuseppe Cotellessa / Reported by Dr. Giuseppe Cotellessa Credit: Photo by Drew Hays on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/@drew_hays Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research in Japan have developed a new system for keeping tissue viable for long-term study once transferred from an animal to a culture medium. The new system uses a microfluidic device that can keep tissue from both drying out and from drowning in fluid. A proof-of-concept experiment showed that tissue explanted from the mouse brain remained viable after almost one month in culture, much longer than is possible with other microfluidic culturing methods, and also much simpler. Experimenting on tissues in culture can facilitate drug discovery because researchers can systematically manipulate the tissue and test different drugs