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Miniature liver on a chip could boost US food safety

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The goal is to compare these engineered organs to animal models, with an eye towards replacing animal testing.

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Reardon, S. Miniature liver on a chip could boost US food safety. Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.21818

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