Organs-on-chips: into the next decade

LA Low, C Mummery, BR Berridge, CP Austin… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Organs-on-chips (OoCs), also known as microphysiological systems or 'tissue
chips'(the terms are synonymous), have attracted substantial interest in recent years owing …

[HTML][HTML] 30 years of microfluidics

N Convery, N Gadegaard - Micro and Nano Engineering, 2019 - Elsevier
Microfluidics provides a great opportunity to create devices capable of outperforming
classical techniques in biomedical and chemical research. In this review, the origins of this …

Robotic fluidic coupling and interrogation of multiple vascularized organ chips

R Novak, M Ingram, S Marquez, D Das… - Nature biomedical …, 2020 - nature.com
Organ chips can recapitulate organ-level (patho) physiology, yet pharmacokinetic and
pharmacodynamic analyses require multi-organ systems linked by vascular perfusion. Here …

Biomimetic human disease model of SARS‐CoV‐2‐induced lung injury and immune responses on organ chip system

M Zhang, P Wang, R Luo, Y Wang, Z Li… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is a global pandemic caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2). The models that can accurately …

Organs-on-a-chip: a fast track for engineered human tissues in drug development

K Ronaldson-Bouchard, G Vunjak-Novakovic - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Organs-on-a-chip (OOCs) are miniature tissues and organs grown in vitro that enable
modeling of human physiology and disease. The technology has emerged from converging …

Bioprinting 3D microfibrous scaffolds for engineering endothelialized myocardium and heart-on-a-chip

YS Zhang, A Arneri, S Bersini, SR Shin, K Zhu… - Biomaterials, 2016 - Elsevier
Engineering cardiac tissues and organ models remains a great challenge due to the
hierarchical structure of the native myocardium. The need of integrating blood vessels brings …

Phototactic guidance of a tissue-engineered soft-robotic ray

SJ Park, M Gazzola, KS Park, S Park, V Di Santo… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Inspired by the relatively simple morphological blueprint provided by batoid fish such as
stingrays and skates, we created a biohybrid system that enables an artificial animal—a …

Merging organoid and organ-on-a-chip technology to generate complex multi-layer tissue models in a human retina-on-a-chip platform

K Achberger, C Probst, J Haderspeck, S Bolz, J Rogal… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
The devastating effects and incurable nature of hereditary and sporadic retinal diseases
such as Stargardt disease, age-related macular degeneration or retinitis pigmentosa …

Microfluidic organs-on-chips

SN Bhatia, DE Ingber - Nature biotechnology, 2014 - nature.com
An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic cell culture device created with microchip manufacturing
methods that contains continuously perfused chambers inhabited by living cells arranged to …

Organs-on-chips at the frontiers of drug discovery

EW Esch, A Bahinski, D Huh - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015 - nature.com
Improving the effectiveness of preclinical predictions of human drug responses is critical to
reducing costly failures in clinical trials. Recent advances in cell biology, microfabrication …