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DISEASE MODELLING

Load-induced osteoarthritis on a chip

An osteoarthritis model in a cartilage-on-a-chip, enabled by hyperphysiological compression, recapitulates the progression of the disease and its response to drugs.

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Fig. 1: Induction of an OA phenotype in a cartilage-on-a-chip.

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Gottardi, R. Load-induced osteoarthritis on a chip. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 502–503 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0427-y

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