[HTML][HTML] Engineering prostate cancer in vitro: what does it take?

A Buskin, E Scott, R Nelson, L Gaughan, CN Robson… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
A key challenge in the clinical management and cause of treatment failure of prostate cancer
(PCa) is its molecular, cellular and clinical heterogeneity. Modelling systems that fully …

[HTML][HTML] Breaking the clean room barrier: exploring low-cost alternatives for microfluidic devices

CF Rodríguez, V Andrade-Pérez, MC Vargas… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microfluidics is an interdisciplinary field that encompasses both science and engineering,
which aims to design and fabricate devices capable of manipulating extremely low volumes …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer-on-chip: a 3D model for the study of the tumor microenvironment

E Cauli, MA Polidoro, S Marzorati, C Bernardi… - Journal of Biological …, 2023 - Springer
The approval of anticancer therapeutic strategies is still slowed down by the lack of models
able to faithfully reproduce in vivo cancer physiology. On one hand, the conventional in vitro …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-on-a-chip models combined with mini-tissues or organoids for engineering tumor tissues

H Hwangbo, SJ Chae, W Kim, S Jo, GH Kim - Theranostics, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The integration of tumor-on-a-chip technology with mini-tissues or organoids has emerged
as a powerful approach in cancer research and drug development. This review provides an …

Models for barrier understanding in health and disease in lab-on-a-chips

J Ponmozhi, S Dhinakaran, D Kocsis, K Iván… - Tissue …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The maintenance of body homeostasis relies heavily on physiological barriers. Dysfunction
of these barriers can lead to various pathological processes, including increased exposure …

[HTML][HTML] Building blocks of microphysiological system to model physiology and pathophysiology of human heart

H Vuorenpää, M Björninen, H Välimäki, A Ahola… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Microphysiological systems (MPS) are drawing increasing interest from academia and from
biomedical industry due to their improved capability to capture human physiology. MPS offer …

Microarray fabrication techniques for multiplexed bioassay applications

RT Aggarwal, L Lai, H Li - Analytical Biochemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Microarrays are powerful tools for high-throughput bioassays that can extract information
from tens of thousands of micro-spots consisting of biomolecules. This information is …

[HTML][HTML] A model of Hepatic Steatosis with Declined Viability and Function in a Liver-Organ-on-a-Chip

N Wiriyakulsit, P Keawsomnuk, S Thongin… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) begins with benign steatosis caused by ectopic
storage of triacylglycerols in the liver. Persistent steatosis, in combination with other genetic …

Breast tumor-on-chip: from the tumor microenvironment to medical applications

Y Liu, R Liu, H Liu, T Lyu, K Chen, K Jin, Y Tian - Analyst, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
With the development of microfluidic technology, tumor-on-chip models have gradually
become a new tool for the study of breast cancer because they can simulate more key …

[HTML][HTML] Lab-on-chip technologies for exploring the gut–immune axis in metabolic disease

AE Wheeler, V Stoeger, RM Owens - Lab on a Chip, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The continued rise in metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus poses
a global health burden, necessitating further research into factors implicated in the onset …