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Nature 435, 12-13 (5 May 2005) | doi:10.1038/435012a; Published online 4 May 2005

Labs on a chip:  Meet the stripped down rat

Roxanne Khamsi1

  1. Roxanne Khamsi is a London-based reporter for news@nature.com.
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Are wafers of silicon that support cells cultured from vital organs the future of drug testing and toxicology? Roxanne Khamsi talks to the pioneers creating model animals — and humans — on a chip.

For Michael Shuler, downsizing is not a dirty word. In the mid-1990s, his lab bench was cluttered with flasks connected by surgical tubing.

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