A role for microfluidic systems in precision medicine

JM Ayuso, M Virumbrales-Muñoz, JM Lang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Precision oncology continues to challenge the “one-size-fits-all” dogma. Under the precision
oncology banner, cancer patients are screened for molecular tumor alterations that predict …

Nanotechnology in ovarian cancer: Diagnosis and treatment

M Barani, M Bilal, F Sabir, A Rahdar, GZ Kyzas - Life Sciences, 2021 - Elsevier
To overcome the drawbacks of conventional delivery, this review spotlights a number of
nanoscale drug delivery systems, including nanoparticles, liposomes, nano micelles …

Microfluidic tumor-on-a-chip model to evaluate the role of tumor environmental stress on NK cell exhaustion

JM Ayuso, S Rehman, M Virumbrales-Munoz… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Solid tumors generate a suppressive environment that imposes an overwhelming burden on
the immune system. Nutrient depletion, waste product accumulation, hypoxia, and pH …

Vat photopolymerization 3D printed microfluidic devices for organ-on-a-chip applications

LA Milton, MS Viglione, LJY Ong, GP Nordin, YC Toh - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organs-on-a-chip, or OoCs, are microfluidic tissue culture devices with micro-scaled
architectures that repeatedly achieve biomimicry of biological phenomena. They are well …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor-on-chip modeling of organ-specific cancer and metastasis

N Del Piccolo, VS Shirure, Y Bi… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
Every year, cancer claims millions of lives around the globe. Unfortunately, model systems
that accurately mimic human oncology–a requirement for the development of more effective …

Patient-derived cancer organoids as predictors of treatment response

M Verduin, A Hoeben, D De Ruysscher… - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Patient-derived cancer organoids have taken a prominent role in pre-clinical and
translational research and have been generated for most common solid tumors. Cancer …

Microfluidic lumen-based systems for advancing tubular organ modeling

M Virumbrales-Muñoz, JM Ayuso, MM Gong… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic lumen-based systems are microscale models that recapitulate the anatomy and
physiology of tubular organs. These technologies can mimic human pathophysiology and …

Advanced bioresponsive multitasking hydrogels in the new era of biomedicine

M Niazi, E Alizadeh, A Zarebkohan… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Advanced forms of hydrogels have many inherently desirable properties and can be
designed with different structures and functions. In particular, bioresponsive multifunctional …

Organ on chip technology to model cancer growth and metastasis

G Imparato, F Urciuolo, PA Netti - Bioengineering, 2022 - mdpi.com
Organ on chip (OOC) has emerged as a major technological breakthrough and distinct
model system revolutionizing biomedical research and drug discovery by recapitulating the …

Probing organoid metabolism using fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM): The next frontier of drug discovery and disease understanding

M Barroso, MG Monaghan, R Niesner… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Organoid models have been used to address important questions in developmental and
cancer biology, tissue repair, advanced modelling of disease and therapies, among other …