Microfluidic Chip Mimics Smallest Capillaries to Study How Drugs Affect the Mechanics of Cells

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It has been known for a while that some drugs seem to have physical rather than chemical modes of action or associated side effects. Glucocorticoid drugs that are used for asthma or rheumatoid arthritis,  for example, increase the white blood cell count but biological explanations for how that happens have been unconvincing.

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