Human organ chips enable rapid drug repurposing for COVID-19

A Wyss Institute-led collaboration has used the institute’s organ-on-a-chip technology to identify the antimalarial drug amodiaquine as a potent inhibitor of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

Lindsay Brownell • harvard
May 3, 2021 • ~18 min

New technique could treat cancer metastasis

Delivering immune-stimulating nanoparticles to the lungs via red blood cells halts tumor growth in mice.

Lindsay Brownell • harvard
Nov. 16, 2020 • ~10 min

Researchers able to improve, reverse age-related diseases in mice

Wyss Institute, Harvard Medical School study offers hope for single genetic treatment for multiple age-related ills.

Lindsay Brownell • harvard
Nov. 4, 2019 • ~6 min

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