Medical scientific research and application prospect
Recently, held in Boston, USA organ chip mobile conference in 2016, exhibited the CN biomedical company internal chip system $26 million worth of the human body. Although have been set before the liver, lungs, and part of the intestinal biological chip, but the exhibition system connection for the first time the seven major organs chip, realize high simulation of the human body physiology function.
A single organ of the chip production technology and micro IC chip production technology, but added more groove diaphragm and nutrient solution, the chip can imitate human blood flow and cell growth. CN biomedical researchers say, first consider the chip system for new drug clinical trials, is expected to replace current drug test volunteers and clinical experiments on animals. At the conference, harvard Wyss institute of biological engineering team also said it had bone marrow chip can test the radiation research. Future will refer to the CN biological technology, the production of similar human chip system used to test the human response to nuclear waste.
Organ chip as a new technology in recent years, this year has been the world economy BBS listed as one of top ten emerging technologies in 2016, and chain blocks, artificial intelligence, unmanned ecosystem and selected. Analysts believe that in the life science research, biological chip technology is the gene cloning, gene sequencing technology automatically after another revolutionary breakthrough, the future in the field of medical research and clinical drug design has wide application prospect.
Foreign many scientific research team has already begun to use organs chips for drug development synthesis, viral testing and drug screening. Earlier this year, the United States at Vanderbilt university to develop alternative artificial kidney chip, if the body can make kidney patients after thoroughly get rid of dialysis, related human trials are expected to start at the end of 2017. At the same time, the department of defense for biochip with great interest. In the American society for microbiology (asm) at the meeting, a microbiologist at Pacific northwest national laboratory, said have begun to anthrax rabbit lung implanted chip were studied. At the same time, the department of homeland security chip system for anthrax test is willing to use the human body.
Biochip field have also been developed in our country, such as dalian institute of chemical physics of Chinese academy of sciences team using the chip technology to build the tumor cell culture model. Changjiang securities research report that biological chip market is expanding at the rate of compound annual growth rate of 19%. At present, the biological chip, total sales of more than 300 million yuan, has been exported to the United States, Europe and other 14 countries and regions. Biochip in China mainly concentrated in the field of gene chip and DNA chip detection. As the technology matures and the expansion of research field, biological chip industry have great potential for future business.
