Microfluidic integration of regeneratable electrochemical affinity-based biosensors for continual monitoring of organ-on-a-chip devices

J Aleman, T Kilic, LS Mille, SR Shin, YS Zhang - Nature Protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Organs-on-chips have emerged as viable platforms for drug screening and personalized
medicine. While a wide variety of human organ-on-a-chip models have been developed …

Microfluidic organoids-on-a-chip: The future of human models

G Saorin, I Caligiuri, F Rizzolio - Seminars in cell & developmental biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Microfluidics opened the possibility to model the physiological environment by controlling
fluids flows, and therefore nutrients supply. It allows to integrate external stimuli such as …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-on-chip modeling of organ-specific cancer and metastasis

N Del Piccolo, VS Shirure, Y Bi… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Every year, cancer claims millions of lives around the globe. Unfortunately, model systems
that accurately mimic human oncology–a requirement for the development of more effective …

Model of patient-specific immune-enhanced organoids for immunotherapy screening: feasibility study

KI Votanopoulos, S Forsythe, H Sivakumar… - Annals of surgical …, 2020 - Springer
Introduction We hypothesized that engineering a combined lymph node/melanoma organoid
from the same patient would allow tumor, stroma, and immune system to remain viable for …

Probing prodrug metabolism and reciprocal toxicity with an integrated and humanized multi-tissue organ-on-a-chip platform

SAP Rajan, J Aleman, MM Wan, NP Zarandi, G Nzou… - Acta biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
Current drug development techniques are expensive and inefficient, partially due to the use
of preclinical models that do not accurately recapitulate in vivo drug efficacy and cytotoxicity …

Bone‐on‐a‐chip: microfluidic technologies and microphysiologic models of bone tissue

A Mansoorifar, R Gordon, RC Bergan… - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bone is an active organ that continuously undergoes an orchestrated process of remodeling
throughout life. Bone tissue is uniquely capable of adapting to loading, hormonal, and other …

[HTML][HTML] Current insights into the bone marrow niche: From biology in vivo to bioengineering ex vivo

Y Xiao, CAS McGuinness, WS Doherty-Boyd… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) are fundamental to the generation of the body's blood and
immune cells. They reside primarily within the bone marrow (BM) niche microenvironment …

Recent Advances in Microfluidic Platforms for Programming Cell‐Based Living Materials

P Zhang, N Shao, L Qin - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Cell‐based living materials, including single cells, cell‐laden fibers, cell sheets, organoids,
and organs, have attracted intensive interests owing to their widespread applications in …

Premetastatic Niche Mimicking Bone‐On‐A‐Chip: A Microfluidic Platform to Study Bone Metastasis in Cancer Patients

X Ji, HP Bei, G Zhong, H Shao, X He, X Qian, Y Zhang… - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Primary cancer modulates the bone microenvironment to sow the seeds of dormancy and
metastasis in tumor cells, leading to multiple organ metastasis and death. In this study, 3D …

Organs-on-a-chip models for biological research

G Vunjak-Novakovic, K Ronaldson-Bouchard… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
We explore the utility of bioengineered human tissues—individually or connected into
physiological units—for biological research. While much smaller and simpler than their …