Organ-on-a-chip platforms for the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine

几个世纪以来，传统中药（TCM）一直用于疾病治疗，全球对TCM的兴趣正在增长。有成千上万的经典中药配方，提供了一个巨大的水库，以寻找有效的药物。一个典型的例子是屠呦呦（2015年诺贝尔奖获得者）从中药中发现了青蒿素，可以抑制疟疾。然而，尽管有强烈的愿望，以探索众多的中药和中药配方的作用的科学依据，知识一直是有限的，由于中医药的复杂性和缺乏现代化的中医药研究的进展。

For centuries, traditional Chinese medicines (TCMs) have been used for disease treatment and interest in TCMs is growing globally. There are thousands of classic TCM formulas that provide an enormous reservoir to search for potent drugs. A typical example is the discovery of artemisinin from TCMs that inhibits Malaria by YouYou Tu (a 2015 Nobel laureate). However, despite a strong desire to explore the scientific basis for the action of numerous Chinese herbs and TCM formulas, knowledge has been limited due to the complexity of TCM and the lack of the progress in modernization of TCM research.