Scientists build world's first artificial stomach
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15655255/wid/11915773?GT1=8717
This is an article about an artificial stomach. It is about the size of a desktop computer and it is constructed from "sophisticated plastics and metals able to withstand the corrosive acids and enzymes found in the human gut". Unlike prior stomach models, Wickham's model incorporates the physiological elements of digestion, including contractions that break up food and move it along the assembly line for digestion. Software sets the constraints. The artificial stomach can even vomit! Several companies have already showed interest in using the stomach to test different things.
This is an article about an artificial stomach. It is about the size of a desktop computer and it is constructed from "sophisticated plastics and metals able to withstand the corrosive acids and enzymes found in the human gut". Unlike prior stomach models, Wickham's model incorporates the physiological elements of digestion, including contractions that break up food and move it along the assembly line for digestion. Software sets the constraints. The artificial stomach can even vomit! Several companies have already showed interest in using the stomach to test different things.
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