OHSU gets $6 million to advance human-engineered tissue research

Oregon Health & Science University is getting a major boost in its effort to better understand and eventually treat some of the most aggressive cancers with $6 million to research “organs-on-chips” – tiny, lab-built systems that mimic how human tissues function and how the disease spreads. Each chip is about the size of a USB stick but contains living human cells arranged to behave like real ...