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Blood brain barrier on a chip could stand in for children in pediatric brain research
December 5, 2014 by NewsBot
Bioengineering researchers 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.