Bioprinting for stem cell research

S Tasoglu, U Demirci - Trends in biotechnology, 2013 - cell.com
Recently, there has been growing interest in applying bioprinting techniques to stem cell
research. Several bioprinting methods have been developed utilizing acoustics …

Nanotechnology for tissue engineering: need, techniques and applications

JD Kingsley, S Ranjan, N Dasgupta, P Saha - journal of pharmacy research, 2013 - Elsevier
Tissue engineering is very fast growing scientific area in this era which is used to create,
repair, and/or replace cells, tissues and organs by using cell and/or combinations of cells …

The use of agarose microwells for scalable embryoid body formation and cardiac differentiation of human and murine pluripotent stem cells

J Dahlmann, G Kensah, H Kempf, D Skvorc, A Gawol… - Biomaterials, 2013 - Elsevier
In most pluripotent stem cell differentiation protocols the formation of embryoid bodies (EBs)
is an important step. Here we describe a rapid, straightforward soft lithography approach for …

A triggered DNA hydrogel cover to envelop and release single cells.

J Jin, Y Xing, Y Xi, X Liu, T Zhou, X Ma… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2013 - europepmc.org
We develop an enzyme-triggered permeable DNA hydrogel cover to envelop and release
single cells in microwells. The porous structure of the DNA hydrogel allows nutrients and …

Application of concave microwells to pancreatic tumor spheroids enabling anticancer drug evaluation in a clinically relevant drug resistance model

SE Yeon, DY No, SH Lee, SW Nam, IH Oh, J Lee… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Intrinsic drug resistance of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) warrants studies
using models that are more clinically relevant for identifying novel resistance mechanisms …

Workshop meeting report Organs-on-Chips: human disease models

A van de Stolpe, J den Toonder - Lab on a chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The concept of “Organs-on-Chips” has recently evolved and has been described as 3D (mini-
) organs or tissues consisting of multiple and different cell types interacting with each other …

Alginate gel microwell arrays using electrodeposition for three-dimensional cell culture

F Ozawa, K Ino, T Arai, J Ramón-Azcón, Y Takahashi… - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, we developed a novel method for fabricating microwell arrays constructed from
alginate gels, and the alginate gel microwells were used for three-dimensional (3D) cell …

A strategy for the construction of controlled, three‐dimensional, multilayered, tissue‐like structures

P Gong, W Zheng, Z Huang, W Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Differentiated cells make up tissues and organs, and communicate within a complex, three
dimensional (3D) environment. The spatial arrangement of cellular interactions is difficult to …

Microwell fabrication methods and applications for cellular studies

SH Kim, GH Lee, JY Park - Biomedical Engineering Letters, 2013 - Springer
Traditional cell culture methods allow bulk biomolecular assays; however, individual cell
responses are blended, lost, and ignored. To overcome such limitations of the traditional cell …

Constructing stem cell microenvironments using bioengineering approaches

DA Brafman - Physiological genomics, 2013 - journals.physiology.org
Within the adult organism, stem cells reside in defined anatomical microenvironments called
niches. These architecturally diverse microenvironments serve to balance stem cell self …