Rapid prototyping of microfluidic chips enabling controlled biotechnology applications in microspace

R Garmasukis, C Hackl, A Charvat, SG Mayr… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Rapid prototyping of microfluidic chips is a key enabler for biotechnology.•
Technology enables a reduced time to market and efficient design iterations.•Possibility to …

Fly Me to the Micron: Microtechnologies for Drosophila Research

UM Sonmez, N Frey, PR LeDuc… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Multicellular model organisms, such as Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly), are frequently
used in a myriad of biological research studies due to their biological significance and …

Shape-programmable three-dimensional microfluidic structures

Z Wang, H Jiang, G Wu, Y Li, T Zhang… - … applied materials & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microfluidic devices are gaining extensive interest due to their potential applications in wide-
ranging areas, including lab-on-a-chip devices, fluid delivery, and artificial vascular …

[HTML][HTML] Piezo regulates epithelial topology and promotes precision in organ size control

MS Mim, N Kumar, M Levis, MF Unger, G Miranda… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Mechanosensitive Piezo channels regulate cell division, cell extrusion, and cell death.
However, systems-level functions of Piezo in regulating organogenesis remain poorly …

Fly-on-a-Chip: Microfluidics for Drosophila melanogaster Studies

A Zabihihesari, AJ Hilliker, P Rezai - Integrative Biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The fruit fly or Drosophila melanogaster has been used as a promising model organism in
genetics, developmental and behavioral studies as well as in the fields of neuroscience …

Low-cost and rapid prototyping of integrated electrochemical microfluidic platforms using consumer-grade off-the-shelf tools and materials

MAM Asri, WC Mak, SA Norazman, AN Nordin - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We present a low-cost, accessible, and rapid fabrication process for electrochemical
microfluidic sensors. This work leverages the accessibility of consumer-grade electronic craft …

Rapid and cost-effective benchtop microfabrication of disposable carbon-based electrochemical microfluidic devices

JF Hernández-Rodríguez, D Rojas… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2020 - Elsevier
A low-cost scalable xurography cleanroom-free approach is proposed for the development
of disposable electrochemical microfluidic devices (EMDs). Microband carbon electrodes as …

Microfluidics for the study of mechanotransduction

CM Griffith, SA Huang, C Cho, TM Khare… - Journal of physics D …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Mechanical forces regulate a diverse set of biological processes at cellular, tissue, and
organismal length scales. Investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie …

Strategy for fast manufacturing of 3D hydrodynamic focusing multilayer microfluidic chips and its application for flow-based synthesis of gold nanoparticles

Y Wang, M Seidel - Microfluidics and Nanofluidics, 2021 - Springer
Fabrication of 3D microfluidic devices is normally quite expensive and tedious. A strategy
was established to rapidly and effectively produce multilayer 3D microfluidic chips which are …

The Art of Building Living Tissues: Exploring the Frontiers of Biofabrication with 3D Bioprinting

S Verma, V Khanna, S Kumar, S Kumar - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
The scope of three-dimensional printing is expanding rapidly, with innovative approaches
resulting in the evolution of state-of-the-art 3D bioprinting (3DbioP) techniques for solving …