A guide to the organ-on-a-chip

CM Leung, P De Haan… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Organs-on-chips (OoCs) are systems containing engineered or natural miniature
tissues grown inside microfluidic chips. To better mimic human physiology, the chips are …

Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine

DE Ingber - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The failure of animal models to predict therapeutic responses in humans is a major problem
that also brings into question their use for basic research. Organ-on-a-chip (organ chip) …

A role for microfluidic systems in precision medicine

JM Ayuso, M Virumbrales-Muñoz, JM Lang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Precision oncology continues to challenge the “one-size-fits-all” dogma. Under the precision
oncology banner, cancer patients are screened for molecular tumor alterations that predict …

Organ-on-a-chip: a new paradigm for drug development

C Ma, Y Peng, H Li, W Chen - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2021 - cell.com
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 …

Microfluidic formulation of topological hydrogels for microtissue engineering

KO Rojek, M Cwiklinska, J Kuczak… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics has recently emerged as a powerful tool in generation of submillimeter-sized
cell aggregates capable of performing tissue-specific functions, so-called microtissues, for …

Modelling cancer in microfluidic human organs-on-chips

A Sontheimer-Phelps, BA Hassell, DE Ingber - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
One of the problems that has slowed the development and approval of new anticancer
therapies is the lack of preclinical models that can be used to identify key molecular, cellular …

3D in vitro morphogenesis of human intestinal epithelium in a gut-on-a-chip or a hybrid chip with a cell culture insert

W Shin, HJ Kim - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Human intestinal morphogenesis establishes 3D epithelial microarchitecture and spatially
organized crypt–villus characteristics. This unique structure is necessary to maintain …

Advances in organ-on-a-chip engineering

B Zhang, A Korolj, BFL Lai, M Radisic - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Predicting the effects of drugs before human clinical trials is at the heart of drug screening
and discovery processes. The cost of drug discovery is steadily increasing owing to the …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Organ-on-a-chip: a survey of technical results and problems

AE Danku, EH Dulf, C Braicu, A Jurj… - … in bioengineering and …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Organ-on-a-chip (OoC), also known as micro physiological systems or 'tissue chips' have
attracted substantial interest in recent years due to their numerous applications, especially in …