Technology

 

Allergy Test on a Chip™

 

 

HμREL^®'s patented Allergy Test on a Chip™ is an in vitro substitute for the widely utilized Local Lymph Node Assay (LLNA), which is performed on mice. The device will integrate a reconstructed human skin, a separate cell culture capable of simulating a human immune system response (i.e., an allergic reaction), and means of microfluidically-mediated chemotactic signaling between the skin construct where the allergenic stimulus originates and the immune system construct where the response to that stimulus occurs.

 

Allergy Test on a Chip™ is under development through HμREL^®'s joint research collaboration with L’ORÉAL.