Linda Griffith

Using “organs-on-a-chip” to model complicated diseases

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MIT biological engineers including Professor Linda Griffith have created a model that lets them study how different tissues contribute to inflammatory diseases such as ulcerative colitis.

A recipe for health

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Professor Linda Griffith welcomes women’s health advocate, Top Chef host, and MIT visiting scholar Padma Lakshmi to discuss endometriosis research.

“Body on a chip” could improve drug evaluation

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Linda Griffith and David Trumper have linked human tissue samples using microfluidic channels. This chip should allow researchers to measure the effects of drugs before testing them in humans.