Women’s Health + Medicine: The Vagina Chip

Description

Scientists have developed an organ chip that replicates the vaginal microbiome. It could help to test drugs against microbial imbalances that make women more susceptible to sexually transmitted diseases and puts them at risk of preterm delivery.
 

Sources

• First ‘Vagina-On-A-Chip’ Will Help Researchers Test Drugs (Scientific American)
• A Breakthrough In Bacterial Vaginosis Treatment For Women’s Health (Wyss Institute)
• Vaginal Microbiome-Host Interactions Modeled In A Human Vagina-On-A-Chip (Microbiome Journal)