Materials Design Innovations in Optimizing Cellular Behavior on Melt Electrowritten (MEW) Scaffolds

BL Devlin, MC Allenby, J Ren… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The field of melt electrowriting (MEW) has seen significant progress, bringing innovative
advancements to the fabrication of biomaterial scaffolds, and creating new possibilities for …

[HTML][HTML] Mathematical and computational models in spheroid-based biofabrication

S Arjoca, A Robu, M Neagu, A Neagu - Acta Biomaterialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Ubiquitous in embryonic development, tissue fusion is of interest to tissue engineers who
use tissue spheroids or organoids as building blocks of three-dimensional (3D) multicellular …

Parameter identifiability and model selection for sigmoid population growth models

MJ Simpson, AP Browning, DJ Warne… - Journal of theoretical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Sigmoid growth models, such as the logistic, Gompertz and Richards' models, are widely
used to study population dynamics ranging from microscopic populations of cancer cells, to …

Quantitative analysis of tumour spheroid structure

AP Browning, JA Sharp, RJ Murphy, G Gunasingh… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Tumour spheroids are common in vitro experimental models of avascular tumour growth.
Compared with traditional two-dimensional culture, tumour spheroids more closely mimic …

Profile-wise analysis: a profile likelihood-based workflow for identifiability analysis, estimation, and prediction with mechanistic mathematical models

MJ Simpson, OJ Maclaren - PLoS Computational Biology, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Interpreting data using mechanistic mathematical models provides a foundation for
discovery and decision-making in all areas of science and engineering. Developing …

3D plotting of calcium phosphate cement and melt electrowriting of polycaprolactone microfibers in one scaffold: A hybrid additive manufacturing process

D Kilian, M von Witzleben, M Lanaro, CS Wong… - Journal of functional …, 2022 - mdpi.com
The fabrication of patient-specific scaffolds for bone substitutes is possible through extrusion-
based 3D printing of calcium phosphate cements (CPC) which allows the generation of …

Quantifying tissue growth, shape and collision via continuum models and Bayesian inference

C Falcó, DJ Cohen, JA Carrillo… - Journal of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although tissues are usually studied in isolation, this situation rarely occurs in biology, as
cells, tissues and organs coexist and interact across scales to determine both shape and …

[HTML][HTML] New computational tools and experiments reveal how geometry affects tissue growth in 3D printed scaffolds

DJ VandenHeuvel, BL Devlin, PR Buenzli… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding how tissue growth in porous scaffolds is influenced by geometry is a
fundamental challenge in the field of tissue engineering. We investigate the influence of …

Introducing Controlled Microporosity in Melt Electrowriting

KMA Mueller, A Unterrainer… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Melt electrowriting (MEW) enables the electric field‐assisted digital fabrication of precisely
defined scaffold architectures of micron‐sized fibers. However, charge accumulation and …

Structural identifiability analysis of linear reaction–advection–diffusion processes in mathematical biology

AP Browning, M Taşcă, C Falcó… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Effective application of mathematical models to interpret biological data and make accurate
predictions often requires that model parameters are identifiable. Approaches to assess the …