Advances in Spheroids and Organoids on a Chip

G Fang, YC Chen, H Lu, D Jin - Advanced Functional Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Multicellular spheroids and organoids are promising in vitro 3D models in personalized
medicine and drug screening. They replicate the structural and functional characteristics of …

Recent advances of organ-on-a-chip in cancer modeling research

X Liu, Q Su, X Zhang, W Yang, J Ning, K Jia, J Xin, H Li… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Although many studies have focused on oncology and therapeutics in cancer, cancer
remains one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Due to the unclear molecular …

New strategy for promoting vascularization in tumor spheroids in a microfluidic assay

Z Wan, MA Floryan, MF Coughlin… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Previous studies have developed vascularized tumor spheroid models to demonstrate the
impact of intravascular flow on tumor progression and treatment. However, these models …

Adaptable microfluidic vessel-on-a-chip platform for investigating tumor metastatic transport in bloodstream

Y Wu, Y Zhou, R Paul, X Qin, K Islam, Y Liu - Analytical chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cancer metastasis counts for 90% of cancer fatalities, and its development process is still a
mystery. The dynamic process of tumor metastatic transport in the blood vessel is not well …

Microfluidic droplet-assisted fabrication of vessel-supported tumors for preclinical drug discovery

Y Wu, Y Zhao, Y Zhou, K Islam… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
High-fidelity in vitro tumor models are important for preclinical drug discovery processes.
Currently, the most commonly used model for in vitro drug testing remains the two …

Hierarchical vessel network-supported tumor model-on-a-chip constructed by induced spontaneous anastomosis

Y Zhou, Y Wu, R Paul, X Qin, Y Liu - ACS applied materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The vascular system in living tissues is a highly organized system that consists of vessels
with various diameters for nutrient delivery and waste transport. In recent years, many vessel …

Detection of Circulating Tumor Cells and Epithelial Progenitor Cells: A Comprehensive Study

S Fuloria, V Subramaniyan, G Gupta… - Journal of …, 2023 - dl.begellhouse.com
Technological advancement to enhance tumor cells (TC) has allowed discovery of various
cellular bio-markers: cancer stem cells (CSC), circulating tumor cells (CTC), and endothelial …

Engineering complexity in human tissue models of cancer

K Ronaldson-Bouchard, I Baldassarri… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Major progress in the understanding and treatment of cancer have tremendously improved
our knowledge of this complex disease and improved the length and quality of patients' …

Engineered Human Organoids for Biomedical Applications

Y Zhu, L Sun, X Wu, Z Gu, Y Zhao - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human organoid models potentially offer a physiologically relevant platform to replace
traditional monolayer cultures and animal models. In particular, the rapid development of …

Performance of nanoparticles for biomedical applications: The in vitro/in vivo discrepancy

S Berger, M Berger, C Bantz, M Maskos… - Biophysics Reviews, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Nanomedicine has a great potential to revolutionize the therapeutic landscape. However, up-
to-date results obtained from in vitro experiments predict the in vivo performance of …