Organs-on-a-chip are miniature devices that use human cells to mimic organs. Harvard bioengineer Donald Ingber and colleagues demonstrated that cells configured into a liver-on-a-chip, for ...

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Secondary lymphoid organs, such as lymph nodes, harbor highly specialized and compartmentalized niches. These niches are optimized to facilitate the encounter of naive lymphocytes with antigens and ...

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Figure 1: Secondary lymphoid organs are essential for the rejection of vascularized cardiac allografts. Figure 3: Cardiac allograft rejection after adoptive transfer of T lymphocytes. Solid tumor ...

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Lymph is collected from around the body and put into the bloodstream. Spleen: The spleen is an organ that's under the lower ribs on your left side. The spleen is part of your immune system. It makes ...