Organ-on-chip company Emulate reveals new deals

Emulate Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.) announced partnerships with Roche (SIX:ROG; OTCQX:RHHBY) and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo:4502) on Tuesday, as well as an initiative with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, Calif.).

The company's Organs-on-Chips are living, micro-engineered environments containing tiny hollow channels lined with tens of thousands of living human cells and tissues to recreate the natural physiology and mechanical forces that cells experience within the human body (see BioCentury Innovations, June 25, 2015)...