A novel vascularized urethra-on-a-chip model.

The male urethra transports urine and semen. Any disease of the male urethra, hindering normal voiding or ejaculation, has a major impact on quality of life. Urethral stricture disease is common and molecular research into urethral strictures is hampered by the lack of reliable models of the human urethra.

Beyond chimerism analysis: methods for tracking a new generation of cell-based medicines.

The analysis of chimerism is crucial to determine the status of patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The variety of relevant techniques available today range from those that analyse nucleic acids (i.e.