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microarray
/ ˌmaɪkrəʊəˈreɪ /
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Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, working in partnership with Roche, have created a next-generation human liver organoid microarray platform designed to predict which medications might trigger harmful immune responses in certain individuals.
By refining these techniques into a matrix-free microarray system and pairing them with patient-specific immune cells, the CuSTOM Accelerator team at Cincinnati Children's turned a scientific breakthrough into a scalable precision toxicology tool.
The phase 1/2 randomized trial compared results from the measles and rubella vaccine delivered by a microarray patch, a small sticking plaster-like device with an array of microscopic projections that painlessly penetrate the skin and deliver the vaccine, or by conventional injection with a needle and syringe.
Over 90% of infants were protected from measles and all infants were protected from rubella following a single dose of the vaccine given by the microarray patch.
The trial found no safety concerns with delivering the measles and rubella vaccine using a microarray patch.
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