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 …

Acoustic microfluidics

P Zhang, H Bachman, A Ozcelik… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Acoustic microfluidic devices are powerful tools that use sound waves to manipulate micro-
or nanoscale objects or fluids in analytical chemistry and biomedicine. Their simple device …

Advances in multicellular spheroids formation

X Cui, Y Hartanto, H Zhang - Journal of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Three-dimensional multicellular spheroids (MCSs) have a complex architectural structure,
dynamic cell–cell/cell–matrix interactions and bio-mimicking in vivo microenvironment. As a …

Engineering multi‐cellular spheroids for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

S Kim, EM Kim, M Yamamoto, H Park… - Advanced Healthcare …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐cellular spheroids are formed as a 3D structure with dense cell–cell/cell–extracellular
matrix interactions, and thus, have been widely utilized as implantable therapeutics and …

The synergy of scaffold-based and scaffold-free tissue engineering strategies

A Ovsianikov, A Khademhosseini, V Mironov - Trends in biotechnology, 2018 - cell.com
Tissue engineering (TE) is a highly interdisciplinary research field driven by the goal to
restore, replace, or regenerate defective tissues. Throughout more than two decades of …

Spheroids-on-a-chip: Recent advances and design considerations in microfluidic platforms for spheroid formation and culture

K Moshksayan, N Kashaninejad, ME Warkiani… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018 - Elsevier
A cell spheroid is a three-dimensional (3D) aggregation of cells. Synthetic, in-vitro spheroids
provide similar metabolism, proliferation, and species concentration gradients to those found …

Three‐dimensional multicellular biomaterial platforms for biomedical application

J Hao, C Qin, C Wu - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The three‐dimensional (3D) multicellular platforms prepared by cells or
biomaterials have been widely applied in biomedical fields for the regeneration of complex …

[HTML][HTML] The tumor-on-chip: Recent advances in the development of microfluidic systems to recapitulate the physiology of solid tumors

G Trujillo-de Santiago, BG Flores-Garza… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
The ideal in vitro recreation of the micro-tumor niche—although much needed for a better
understanding of cancer etiology and development of better anticancer therapies—is highly …

[HTML][HTML] Neutrophil-inspired propulsion in a combined acoustic and magnetic field

D Ahmed, T Baasch, N Blondel, N Läubli, J Dual… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Systems capable of precise motion in the vasculature can offer exciting possibilities
for applications in targeted therapeutics and non-invasive surgery. So far, the majority of the …

Cell spheroids as a versatile research platform: formation mechanisms, high throughput production, characterization and applications

MC Decarli, R Amaral, DP Dos Santos, LB Tofani… - …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) cell culture has tremendous advantages to closely mimic
the in vivo architecture and microenvironment of healthy tissue and organs, as well as of …