http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. In a London ceremony today, Wyss Founding Director Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., received the NC3Rs 3Rs Prize from the UK's National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) for his innovative Lung-on-a-Chip—a microdevice lined by human cells that recapitulates complex functions of the living lung. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-02-lung-on-a-chip-prize-potentially-animal.html Medical research Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:38:21 EST news281101092 Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have mimicked pulmonary edema in a microchip lined by living human cells, as reported today in the journal Science Translational Medicine. They used this "lung-on-a-chip" to study drug toxicity and identify potential new therapies to prevent this life-threatening condition. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-lung-on-a-chip-stage-animal.html Medical research Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:00:04 EST news271508128