“Asthma is one of the top reasons for trips to the emergency room, particularly for children, and a large segment of the asthmatic population doesn’t respond to currently available treatments,” said Donald Ingber, who is the founding director of the Wyss Institute, Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and Children’s Hospital Boston and Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS. “The airway muscle-on-a-chip provides an important and exciting new tool for discovering new therapeutic agents.”
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