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Emulate raises $12 million in series A

July 29, 2014 12:26 AM UTC

The Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University spun out its organs-on-chips technology into newco Emulate Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.), which raised $12 million in a series A round led by NanoDimension. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Hansjorg Wyss, the founder of the Wyss Institute, also participated.

Emulate's organs-on-chips, which contain hollow channels lined by living cells, can mimic normal organ physiology as well as model disease. The company said the technology can more quickly and accurately predict human response to medicine than traditional preclinical animal models (see SciBX: Science-Business eXchange, July 22, 2010). ...