Organ-on-a-Chip Platform Helps Devise Strategy to Treat Severe COVID-19 Complications - HospiMedica

One of the greatest challenges for clinicians during the COVID-19 pandemic has been to understand why some people infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus experience cytokine storms, while others do not. Using their novel organ-on-a-chip platform, researchers have no…

Cytokine storms are known to occur in some patients with COVID-19, as well as other illnesses. They happen when the body releases a large number of signaling proteins called cytokines in the blood. T… [+3260 chars]

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