Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers are collaborating with NASA to send human heart "tissue-on-a-chip" specimens into space. The project is designed to monitor the tissue for changes in heart muscle ...

And then there’s UW’s “kidney on a chip.” This flight marks the second time that the kidney-tissue experiment has been sent into orbit. The first go-round, also involving a SpaceX Dragon ...

A so-called "brain on a chip" has been created by scientists at the Australian National University (ANU), who used semiconductors to guide the growth of neural tissue into predictable connections.