Acoustic droplet-assisted superhydrophilic–superhydrophobic microarray platform for high-throughput screening of patient-derived tumor spheroids

Y Xia, H Chen, J Li, H Hu, Q Qian, RX He… - … Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Cell-based high-throughput screening is a key step in the current disease-based research,
drug development, and precision medicine. However, it is challenging to establish a rapid …

The translational status of cancer liquid biopsies

S Bratulic, F Gatto, J Nielsen - Regenerative Engineering and …, 2021 - Springer
Precision oncology aims to tailor clinical decisions specifically to patients with the objective
of improving treatment outcomes. This can be achieved by leveraging omics information for …

Bimodal liquid biopsy for cancer immunotherapy based on peptide engineering and nanoscale analysis

J Bu, W Jeong, R Jafari, LJ Kubiatowicz, A Nair… - Biosensors and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite its high potential, PD-L1 expressed by tumors has not been successfully utilized as
a biomarker for estimating treatment responses to immunotherapy. Circulating tumor cells …

Rapid metabolomic screening of cancer cells via high-throughput static droplet microfluidics

P Radfar, L Ding, LR de la Fuente, H Aboulkheyr… - Biosensors and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Effective isolation and in-depth analysis of Circulating Tumour Cells (CTCs) are greatly
needed in diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of the therapeutic response of cancer …

A high-throughput 3D bioprinted cancer cell migration and invasion model with versatile and broad biological applicability

MS Jung, JN Skhinas, EY Du, MAK Tolentino… - Biomaterials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Understanding the underlying mechanisms of migration and metastasis is a key focus of
cancer research. There is an urgent need to develop in vitro 3D tumor models that can mimic …

Bioorthogonal microbubbles with antifouling nanofilm for instant and suspended enrichment of circulating tumor cells

Y Xiang, H Zhang, H Lu, B Wei, C Su, X Qin, M Fang… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Integrating clinical rare cell enrichment, culture, and single-cell phenotypic profiling is
currently hampered by the lack of competent technologies, which typically suffer from weak …

Scaling and automation of a high-throughput single-cell-derived tumor sphere assay chip

YH Cheng, YC Chen, R Brien, E Yoon - Lab on a Chip, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent research suggests that cancer stem-like cells (CSCs) are the key subpopulation for
tumor relapse and metastasis. Due to cancer plasticity in surface antigen and enzymatic …

Mammosphere formation assay from human breast cancer tissues and cell lines

Y Lombardo, A de Giorgio, CR Coombes… - JoVE (Journal of …, 2015 - jove.com
Similar to healthy tissues, many blood and solid malignancies are now thought to be
organised hierarchically, with a subset of stem-like cancer cells that self-renew while giving …

Digital microfluidics for automated hanging drop cell spheroid culture

AP Aijian, RL Garrell - Journal of laboratory automation, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Cell spheroids are multicellular aggregates, grown in vitro, that mimic the three-dimensional
morphology of physiological tissues. Although there are numerous benefits to using …

Tumor inside a pearl drop

T Arbatan, A Al‐Abboodi, F Sarvi… - Advanced …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Liquid marbles are exploited in this study as efficient miniature bioreactors inoculated with
Hep G2 (hepatocellular carcinoma) cells to culture cell spheroids in vitro. This method …