Nagi Bioscience tests drugs on worms using microfluidics


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2022

Nagi Bioscience tests drugs on worms using microfluidics

Article by JONATHAN SMITH
The Swiss startup Nagi Bioscience aims to speed up drug and chemical safety testing by automating research on a worm called Caenorhabditis elegans.
Image/Elena Resko

The Swiss startup Nagi Bioscience aims to speed up drug and chemical safety testing by automating research on a worm called Caenorhabditis elegans.

As the procedure is cheaper and more scalable than mouse experiments, drug developers can test the drug in a whole organism earlier on in development than they normally would be able to. According to Cornaglia, this can derisk the project earlier on with whole-animal data.