Emulating Human Biology on a Chip: Karalis recreating the human body environment

When the human body senses injury or infection, its response is to inflame. This inflammation serves as a barrier, isolating the infected or injured area from the rest of the body. There are dozens of inflammatory disorders, though, that occur when the human body goes overboard in response to a trauma or when this inflammation occurs for no reason. Rheumatoid arthritis and diabetes are two examples. Asthma, too, is an inflammatory disease, as inflammation of the air passages narrows the airways that carry oxygen.