The pharmaceutical industry has been desperately searching for efficient drug discovery
methods. Organ-on-a-Chip, a cutting-edge technology that can emulate the physiological …

Cancer is one of the leading causes of human death, despite enormous efforts to explore
cancer biology and develop anticancer therapies. The main challenges in cancer research …

The attention in lab-on-a-chip devices with their potent application in medical engineering
has prolonged swiftly over the last ten years. Travelling through the technology …

Drug development is a long process whose main content includes drug synthesis, drug
delivery, and drug evaluation. Compared with conventional drug development procedures …

Research in cell biology greatly relies on cell-based in vitro assays and models that facilitate
the investigation and understanding of specific biological events and processes under …

Before a lead compound goes through a clinical trial, preclinical studies utilize two‐
dimensional (2D) in vitro models and animal models to study the pharmacodynamics and …

The necessity of disease models for bone/cartilage related disorders is well-recognized, but
the barrier between ex-vivo cell culture, animal models and the real human body has been …

Breast cancer has seriously been threatening physical and mental health of women in the
world, and its morbidity and mortality also show clearly upward trend in China over time …

Microphysiological systems (MPS, also known as “organ-on-a-chip”,“body-on-a-chip”, or
“human-on-a-chip”) have emerged over the last 15 years as attractive systems to probe …

Hybrid microfluidic systems that are composed of multiple different types of substrates have
been recognized as a versatile and superior platform, which can draw benefits from different …