When infection or disease strikes the lung\u2014cancer, pneumonia, COVID-19\u2014it\u2019s tough for researchers to see what\u2019s going on inside the organ. Even if they simulate in a lab the disease in a lung, they can\u2019t recreate the forces the rib cage places on it without blocking their view of what\u2019s happening. That\u2019s about to change.<\/p>\n
A crystal rib cage, developed by a Boston University engineer\u2014and being refined in collaboration with a BU medical researcher specializing in pneumonia\u2014will enable scientists to visualize in real time how the lung develops immunity against infection. Read more at The Brink.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kilachand Fund Awards Go to Crystal Rib Cage and Brain Connection Projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[91,90],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116907"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117047,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116907\/revisions\/117047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}