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Vagina Chip: Special chip develops by researchers for women's private part to protect against infection

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: December 23, 2022 16:02 IST

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Science has come a long way today. Until recently, condoms were an effective weapon in preventing sexually transmitted infections. But now a chip will protect women from sexually transmitted infections.
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A report was published Nov. 26 in the journal Microbiome, Live Science reports. In this, the scientists said, research will be conducted on how different types of micro-organisms affect Vagina.
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A chip is made for this purpose. Through which researchers will be able to study how different drugs and probiotics change the internal environment. They will also be able to study how the different microbial community inside the vagina affects its environment.
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Gautam Mahajan, the lead author of the research, is a former researcher at Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. The environment inside the vagina plays an important role in controlling a woman's health and disease.
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The new chip we developed appears to be a promising way to study host-microbiome interactions and accelerate the development of potential probiotic therapies. This chip works to generate beneficial bacteria.
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According to The New York Times, this chip is only 1 inch (2.54 cm) long. The chip uses cells donated by two women.
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