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The vaginal chip is a new breakthrough amid the lack of research on woman’s vital organs. Photo/Wyss Institute.
Leucorrhoea occurs when discharge or mucus from the vagina and cervix. cActually, this fluid or mucus is naturally secreted by the body to keep the vagina clean and moist and protect it from infection. It doesn’t just happen to adult women, teenage girls experience it too. In most cases, vaginal discharge is normal.
However, there are several conditions that make vaginal discharge not an abnormal condition. Leucorrhoea is often triggered by bacterial vaginosis. This condition is an excessive secretion of vaginal discharge caused by a disruption of the balance of the normal vaginal flora.
Mentioned by IFL Science, there are many bacteria present vagina . In fact, Lactobacillus species are found in the vital organs of femininity. Even a healthy vagina has 70 percent of the microbiome.
So bacterial vaginosis is a condition that really needs to be thoroughly researched. Unfortunately, this area of research is very little studied. This is mainly due to the fact that there are no preclinical models capable of replicating the vaginal epithelial microenvironment.
This is because the human vaginal microbiome is very different from other common animal models. Whereas the preclinical model is very important for the experimentation and development of the therapy.
Aakanksha Gulati of the Wyss Institute said that in the absence of a suitable preclinical model for bacterial vaginosis, women cannot avoid vaginal discharge. That’s what the research team at the Wyss Institute, founded by Harvard University, is trying to solve.
They then succeeded in developing a vaginal chip method to help women avoid bacterial vaginosis. The vaginal chip would work by seeding the upper channel of the polymer chip with human vaginal epithelial cells, human uterine fibroblast cells through a permeable membrane.
