On-chip recapitulation of the tumor microenvironment: A decade of progress

SM Giannitelli, V Peluzzi, S Raniolo, G Roscilli… - Biomaterials, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the hurdles to the development of new anticancer therapies is the lack of in vitro
models which faithfully reproduce the in vivo tumor microenvironment (TME). Understanding …

Engineering Organ-on-a-Chip Systems for Vascular Diseases

A Shakeri, Y Wang, Y Zhao, S Landau… - … , and vascular biology, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Vascular diseases, such as atherosclerosis and thrombosis, are major causes of morbidity
and mortality worldwide. Traditional in vitro models for studying vascular diseases have …

Advances in cardiac tissue engineering and heart‐on‐a‐chip

J Kieda, A Shakeri, S Landau, EY Wang… - … Research Part A, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Recent advances in both cardiac tissue engineering and hearts‐on‐a‐chip are grounded in
new biomaterial development as well as the employment of innovative fabrication …

Biomimetic cell culture for cell adhesive propagation for tissue engineering strategies

Q Luo, K Shang, J Zhu, Z Wu, T Cao, AAQ Ahmed… - Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Biomimetic cell culture, which involves creating a biomimetic microenvironment for cells in
vitro by engineering approaches, has aroused increasing interest given that it maintains the …

[HTML][HTML] Tuneable hydrogel patterns in pillarless microfluidic devices

C Olaizola-Rodrigo, S Palma-Florez, T Ranđelović… - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Organ-on-chip (OOC) technology has recently emerged as a powerful tool to mimic
physiological or pathophysiological conditions through cell culture in microfluidic devices …

Actuation for flexible and stretchable microdevices

URT Arachchige, A Mudugamuwa, H Cha… - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Flexible and stretchable microdevices incorporate highly deformable structures, facilitating
precise functionality at the micro-and millimetre scale. The flexible microdevices have …

[HTML][HTML] Bioinspired materials for wearable diagnostics and biosensors

NM Bardhan, M Radisic… - ACS Biomaterials Science …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Over the past decades, smart nanomaterials and stimuli-responsive materials in the form of
“wearable” biosensors 1 have found exciting medical applications in a vast array of health …

[HTML][HTML] Roadblocks confronting widespread dissemination and deployment of Organs on Chips

CG Alver, E Drabbe, M Ishahak, A Agarwal - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Organ on Chip platforms hold significant promise as alternatives to animal models or
traditional cell cultures, both of which poorly recapitulate human pathophysiology and …

[HTML][HTML] Microenvironments matter: advances in brain-on-chip

G Akcay, R Luttge - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
To highlight the particular needs with respect to modeling the unique and complex
organization of the human brain structure, we reviewed the state-of-the-art in devising brain …

Construction of dentin-on-a-chip based on microfluidic technology and tissue engineering

H Zhang, L Li, S Wang, X Sun, C Luo, B Hou - Journal of Dentistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Aim Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture systems perform better in resembling
tissue or organism structures compared with traditional 2D models. Organs-on-chips (OoCs) …