[Ads-l] A (too?) late candidate for QOTY, medical division

[Jonathan Lighter]

In my day, "talking" alone would have been thought sensational.

JL

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 10:07 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
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> Or the “stop that simile” division...
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> From an article in today’s NYT, on a new process developed by Dr. Don
> Ingber, a Harvard bioengineer, for a ‘vagina on a chip’ to help in treating
> bacterial infections.
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> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/science/vagina-chip-bacterial-vaginosis.html
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> The “vagina on a chip” was made from vaginal cells donated by two women.
> The model was grown inside of silicone rubber chips the size of a stick of
> gum, forming channels that were responsive to fluctuating estrogen levels
> and bacteria. The chip successfully mimicked key features of the vaginal
> microbiome, the swarming communities of bacteria that play a crucial role
> in the organ’s health, the study found.
> The chip is more realistic than other laboratory models of the organ, Dr.
> Ingber said: “This walks, talks, quacks like a human vagina.”
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