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Sexual medicine

A vagina on a chip to model microbiome–host interactions

Nature Reviews Urology volume 20, page 64 (2023)Cite this article

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An innovative organ-on-a-chip culture model of the human vaginal mucosa (termed a vagina chip) has been developed. This device can be used to improve understanding of host–microbiome interactions in the vagina.

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  • Mahajan, G. et al. Vaginal microbiome-host interactions modeled in a human vagina-on-a-chip. Microbiome 10, 201 (2022)

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    Louise Stone

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Stone, L. A vagina on a chip to model microbiome–host interactions. Nat Rev Urol 20, 64 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41585-022-00717-8

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