🔬National Center for Health and Medicine and Dai Nippon Printing started joint research towards drug discovery support using the next generation organ chip “mini gut”
In January 2017, the research group succeeded in creating the “mini gut” from human ES cells or iPS cells in vitro for the first time in the world.
This “mini-intestine” has functions close to the intestines of living organisms such as “peristaltic movement” which moves food digested by contraction of muscle and absorption and secretion of substances, so research on intestinal intractable diseases and drug discovery It is expected to be applied to. DNP Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.