Scientists have mimicked the complicated biome inside a vagina in order to help test drugs for bacterial infections that plague 30 percent of women worldwide. The innovation - a 'vagina on a chip' - features donated vaginal cells that were matured inside silicon chips to form channels that can be used to understand interactions between microbiome and tissues. Creating therapeutics (BV), a condition where there is too much bacteria in the vagina, is difficult, given that the human vaginal microbiome is different from that in animals.
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