Manufacturing of hydrogel biomaterials with controlled mechanical properties for tissue engineering applications

A Vedadghavami, F Minooei, MH Mohammadi… - Acta biomaterialia, 2017 - Elsevier
Hydrogels have been recognized as crucial biomaterials in the field of tissue engineering,
regenerative medicine, and drug delivery applications due to their specific characteristics …

Organ-on-a-chip devices advance to market

B Zhang, M Radisic - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
To curb the high cost of drug development, there is an urgent need to develop more
predictive tissue models using human cells to determine drug efficacy and safety in advance …

Multi-tissue interactions in an integrated three-tissue organ-on-a-chip platform

A Skardal, SV Murphy, M Devarasetty, I Mead… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Many drugs have progressed through preclinical and clinical trials and have been available–
for years in some cases–before being recalled by the FDA for unanticipated toxicity in …

Upper bound on diffusivity

T Hartman, SA Hartnoll, R Mahajan - Physical Review Letters, 2017 - APS
The linear growth of operators in local quantum systems leads to an effective light cone even
if the system is nonrelativistic. We show that the consistency of diffusive transport with this …

Seamless signal transduction from three-dimensional cultured cells to a superoxide anions biosensor via in situ self-assembly of dipeptide hydrogel

M Lian, L Xu, X Zhu, X Chen, W Yang… - Analytical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
This study demonstrates a new strategy for the development of a three-dimensional (3D) cell
culture model-based cellular biosensing system. Distinctly different from the previously …

Organs-on-a-chip: A new paradigm for toxicological assessment and preclinical drug development

D Bovard, A Iskandar, K Luettich… - Toxicology …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
In the last few years, considerable attention has been given to in vitro models in an attempt
to reduce the use of animals and to decrease the rate of preclinical failure associated with …

Rapid customization of 3D integrated microfluidic chips via modular structure-based design

J Qiu, Q Gao, H Zhao, J Fu, Y He - ACS Biomaterials Science & …, 2017 - ACS Publications
In recent years, 3D integrated microfluidic systems have become increasingly more popular
because of their ability to incorporate multifunctional components, including porous …

Simultaneous monitoring of single cell and of micro-organ activity by PEDOT: PSS covered multi-electrode arrays

DA Koutsouras, R Perrier, AV Marquez, A Pirog… - Materials Science and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Continuous and long-term monitoring of cellular and micro-organ activity is required for new
insights into physiology and novel technologies such as Organs-on-Chip. Moreover, recent …

Circadian hormone control in a human-on-a-chip: In vitro biology's ignored component?

KJ Cyr, OM Avaldi, JP Wikswo - Experimental Biology and …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Organs-on-Chips (OoCs) are poised to reshape dramatically the study of biology by
replicating in vivo the function of individual and coupled human organs. Such …

[HTML][HTML] Progress toward an integrated understanding of Parkinson's disease

MWC Rousseaux, JM Shulman, J Jankovic - F1000Research, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Parkinson's disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after
Alzheimer's disease, affecting over 10 million individuals worldwide. While numerous …