In the age of the IVC rack, whose ventilation units remove all harmful environmental toxins (e.g., ammonia and CO2), frequent changes (1–2 times per week) are no longer recommended, and intervals have been increased accordingly. Other aspects of daily handling are also important for animal...
Since lab-on-a-chip mimicking the gut (hereafter “gut-on-a-chip”) is one of the most advanced platforms for the simulative research regarding the correlation between host health and microbiota, the co-culture of the synthetic bacterial community in gut-on-a-chip is expected to reveal the...