Jan 13, 2024
Dr. Hyun Jung Kim, an Assistant Professor at Cleveland Clinic
specializes in coaxing human cultured cells to differentiate and
form tissues resembling the gastrointestinal tract, in order to
study microbe-GI interactions.
Dr. Kim discusses his surprising discovery of how common
immortalized cultured cells can differentiate and form something
that resembles a gut-on-a-chip, how these guts-on-a-chip can be
used to study diseases like inflammatory bowel disease and
colorectal cancer, how the addition of a microbiome to the
gut-on-a-chip allows the bacteria to retain diversity unlike in a
test tube, how the gut-on-a-chip could be valuable for personalized
medicine, and the things he misses about Texas since moving from
there.
This episode was supported by Eezy Breezy Poke, an elegant at-home
vaccine service.