Breathtaking Breakthrough: Lung-on-a-Chip Defends Itself

Lung-on-a-chip has its own immune system

A new lung-on-a-chip allows researchers to watch how lungs respond to threats, how inflammation spreads, and how healing begins.

Breathtaking Breakthrough: Lung-on-a-Chip Defends Itself

Georgia Tech And Vanderbilt researchers have built the first lung-on-a-chip with a working immune system, a breakthrough with the potential to reshape how we study disease, move beyond animal testing, and administer lifesaving therapies.