Finnadvance’s organ-on-chip technology can be used to model human organ tissues
Oulu-based Finnadvance is developing organ-on-chip devices that have great potential in drug development. Experts from Neurocenter Finland have helped the company’s path to growth. Organ-on-chip is an elegant biotechnology device utilizing microfluidic technology, in which human cells are grown and form structures similar to the real organ structures. In the credit card-sized chip, cells can […]
Update on the Functional Brain Imaging Biobank Pilot Project
For many diseases of the brain, particularly various kinds of dementia, early-stage diagnosis is usually challenging because of the lack of accurate, objective diagnostic tools. To improve this situation, Aalto University, together with the Universities of Helsinki, Oulu, Turku, and Tampere, as well as Finland’s university hospitals, decided to establish a national network for collecting […]