Three-dimensional spheroids as in vitro preclinical models for cancer research

B Pinto, AC Henriques, PMA Silva, H Bousbaa - Pharmaceutics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Most cancer biologists still rely on conventional two-dimensional (2D) monolayer culture
techniques to test in vitro anti-tumor drugs prior to in vivo testing. However, the vast majority …

Cell culture in microfluidic droplets

S Sart, G Ronteix, S Jain, G Amselem… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cell manipulation in droplets has emerged as one of the great successes of microfluidic
technologies, with the development of single-cell screening. However, the droplet format has …

Three-dimensional in vitro cell culture models for efficient drug discovery: Progress so far and future prospects

SM Badr-Eldin, HM Aldawsari, S Kotta, PK Deb… - Pharmaceuticals, 2022 - mdpi.com
Despite tremendous advancements in technologies and resources, drug discovery still
remains a tedious and expensive process. Though most cells are cultured using 2D …

Recent methods of droplet microfluidics and their applications in spheroids and organoids

Y Wang, M Liu, Y Zhang, H Liu, L Han - Lab on a Chip, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Droplet microfluidic techniques have long been known as a high-throughput approach for
cell manipulation. The capacity to compartmentalize cells into picolitre droplets in …

Engineered microsystems for spheroid and organoid studies

SM Kang, D Kim, JH Lee, S Takayama… - Advanced healthcare …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 3D in vitro model systems such as spheroids and organoids provide an opportunity
to extend the physiological understanding using recapitulated tissues that mimic …

[HTML][HTML] Using spheroids as building blocks towards 3D bioprinting of tumor microenvironment

P Zhuang, YH Chiang, MS Fernanda… - International journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Cancer still ranks as a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Although considerable efforts
have been dedicated to anticancer therapeutics, progress is still slow, partially due to the …

Spheroid engineering in microfluidic devices

A Tevlek, S Kecili, OS Ozcelik, H Kulah, HC Tekin - ACS omega, 2023 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional (2D) cell culture techniques are commonly employed to investigate
biophysical and biochemical cellular responses. However, these culture methods, having …

3D multispheroid assembly strategies towards tissue engineering and disease modeling

T Zhu, Y Hu, H Cui, H Cui - Advanced Healthcare Materials, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cell spheroids (esp. organoids) as 3D culture platforms are popular models for representing
cell–cell and cell–extracellular matrix (ECM) interactions, bridging the gap between 2D cell …

Engineering induced pluripotent stem cells for cancer immunotherapy

Y Zhou, M Li, K Zhou, J Brown, T Tsao, X Cen… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) that can be genetically engineered
and differentiated into different types of immune cells, providing an unlimited resource for …

Recent advances in brain organoid technology for human brain research

E Jeong, S Choi, SW Cho - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022 - ACS Publications
Brain organoids are self-assembled three-dimensional aggregates with brain-like cell types
and structures and have emerged as new model systems that can be used to investigate …