Fraunhofer ITEM
Designer immune cells for drug discovery, potency and safety testing
14/12/2022
Fraunhofer researchers have succeeded in scaling the production of customized immune cells from laboratory up to industrial level.
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Why are overweight people more susceptible to illness?
07/12/2022
If you gain weight, the fat cells in the body get bigger. So in the extremely obese, those fat cells are greatly enlarged. Now, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) were able to show how enlarged fat cells can cause metabolic diseases. They also developed non-invasive examination methods to determine the size of human fat cells.
Organ-on-a-chip systems: limited validity?
01/02/2019
Organ-on-a-chip systems are technically a great enhancement of medical research because they facilitate testing of active ingredients on cell cultures in the chambers of a plastic chip. This replaces animal testing and improves patient safety. That being said, they are not a true-to-life replication of the human body and can only simulate a few functions and activities.