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World Precision Instruments and SynVivo Launch Next-Generation Multiplexed TEER-on-a-Chip Platform for Real-Time Organ-on-a-Chip Cell Monitoring

SARASOTA, Fla. and HUNTSVILLE, Ala., June 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — World Precision Instruments (WPI), a global leader in transepithelial electrical resistance (TEER) instrumentation, and SynVivo Inc., a pioneer in Organ-on-a-Chip (OOC) technology, today announced the commercial launch of a next-generation multiplexed TEER-on-a-Chip platform—a breakthrough solution enabling real-time, high-throughput measurement of barrier integrity in advanced Organ-on-a-Chip models.

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Machine learning finds combined biological and psychosocial data improve chronic pain prediction

Researchers at McGill University and other institutes recently carried out a study aimed at identifying biomarkers and psychosocial factors associated with the development of chronic pain conditions. Their findings, published in Nature Human Behavior, were obtained by analyzing data from a large biomedical database, namely the UK Biobank, using advanced machine learning techniques.

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Editing Parkinson’s disease—discovery of an inflammatory RNA editing enzyme

The research team, led by Professor Minee L. Choi from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, in collaboration with University College London (UCL) and the Francis Crick Institute, discovered that the RNA-editing enzyme ADAR1 plays an important role in controlling immune responses in astrocytes, glial cells that trigger protective reactions in the brain, and demonstrated that this mechanism is critically involved in the progression of Parkinson’s disease.

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