Tag: environmental_toxins

Penn Engineers Build Placenta-on-a-Chip to Study Toxic Metal Exposure in Pregnancy

9 Nov 2026 2:23 a.m.

University of Pennsylvania bioengineers have developed a placenta-on-a-chip device that could allow ethical, safe study of how toxic metals like cadmium affect pregnancy, says researcher Dan Huh.

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