Human mini brains and spinal cords in a dish: Modeling strategies, current challenges, and prospective advances

S Kofman, N Mohan, X Sun, L Ibric… - Journal of Tissue …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Engineered three-dimensional (3D) in vitro and ex vivo neural tissues, also known as “mini
brains and spinal cords in a dish,” can be derived from different types of human stem cells …

Ultra‐Fast Single‐Nucleotide‐Variation Detection Enabled by Argonaute‐Mediated Transistor Platform

D Kong, S Zhang, M Guo, S Li, Q Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract “Test‐and‐go” single‐nucleotide variation (SNV) detection within several minutes
remains challenging, especially in low‐abundance samples, since existing methods face a …

Discrimination of single-nucleotide variants based on an allele-specific hybridization chain reaction and smartphone detection

A Lázaro, A Maquieira, LA Tortajada-Genaro - ACS sensors, 2022 - ACS Publications
Massive DNA testing requires novel technologies to support a sustainable health system. In
recent years, DNA superstructures have emerged as alternative probes and transducers …

A Review of Fabrication Techniques and Optimization Strategies for Microbial Biosensors

EF Ahuekwe, AF Akinyele, AE Benson… - … Series: Earth and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Challenges of stability and specificity associated with early generation sensors necessitate
the fabrication and optimization of microbial biosensors. More so, the global biosensors …

A hybrid microfluidic electronic sensing platform for life science applications

A Panahi, E Ghafar-Zadeh - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
This paper presents a novel hybrid microfluidic electronic sensing platform, featuring an
electronic sensor incorporated with a microfluidic structure for life science applications. This …

Microfluidic switches driven by mechanically guided multistable buckling

G Luo, L Shi, H Song, M Li, Y Zhong, X He… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Reconfigurable microfluidic devices are of growing interest in microfluidic chemical analysis
and separation system, since their channel network topology can be adjusted conveniently …

Fluidic switch using an elastic actuator due to induced charge electro-osmosis combined with a natural convection pump

H Sugioka, S Takahashi - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
An integrated fluid circuit consisting of a pump and a fluidic switch is a basic unit in a
microfluidic circuit. Here, we propose a fluidic switch using an elastic actuator due to an …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in microengineered platforms for skin research

SK Teertam, V Setaluri, JM Ayuso - JID Innovations, 2024 - Elsevier
The skin plays a critical role in human physiology, acting both as a barrier to environmental
insults and as a window to environmental stimuli. Disruption of this homeostasis leads to …