Highlights•Comprehensive review of advances in microfluidic 3D cell culture since
2012.•Increased physiological relevance by precise control of cellular microenvironment.• …

Light guiding and manipulation in photonics have become ubiquitous in events ranging from
everyday communications to complex robotics and nanomedicine. The speed and sensitivity …

Stem cells are considered the fundamental underpinnings of tissue biology. The stem cell
microenvironment provides factors and elements that play significant roles in controlling the …

The current knowledge of bone marrow mechanics is limited to its viscous properties,
neglecting the elastic contribution of the extracellular matrix. To get a more complete view of …

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 …

Hematopoiesis is the physiological process where hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs)
continuously generate the body's complement of blood and immune cells within unique …

While microporous scaffolds are increasingly used for regenerative medicine and tissue
repair applications, the most common techniques to fabricate these scaffolds use templating …

Stem cells demonstrate considerable promise for various preclinical and clinical
applications, including drug screening, disease treatments, and regenerative medicine …

Microfluidic technology has become a valuable tool to the scientific community, allowing
researchers to study fine cellular mechanisms with higher variable control compared with …

Microchip has long been studied and facilitated recent investigations in multiple biomedical
and material fields. The advances in functional materials triggered several leaps in the …