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KAIST develops chip to predict drug side effects
A KAIST research team has developed a bio-microfluidic system that reproduces in a laboratory the process in which drug-induced muscle damage leads to kidney damage. The modular organ-on-a-chip can connect or separate muscle and kidney tissues and links muscle tissue with proximal tubule epithelial cells on a single chip. The work was conducted with KAIST and Bundang Seoul National University Hospital researchers and was published in Advanced Functional Materials on Nov. 12, 2025.
