Cancer spheroids and organoids as novel tools for research and therapy: state of the art and challenges to guide precision medicine

S El Harane, B Zidi, N El Harane, KH Krause, T Matthes… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
Spheroids and organoids are important novel players in medical and life science research.
They are gradually replacing two-dimensional (2D) cell cultures. Indeed, three-dimensional …

Design of spherically structured 3D in vitro tumor models-Advances and prospects

LP Ferreira, VM Gaspar, JF Mano - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
Three-dimensional multicellular tumor models are receiving an ever-growing focus as
preclinical drug-screening platforms due to their potential to recapitulate major physiological …

Measuring the density and viscosity of culture media for optimized computational fluid dynamics analysis of in vitro devices

C Poon - Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Culture medium is frequently modelled as water in computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
analysis of in vitro culture systems involving flow, such as bioreactors and organ-on-chips …

Magnetic levitational bioassembly of 3D tissue construct in space

VA Parfenov, YD Khesuani, SV Petrov, PA Karalkin… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Magnetic levitational bioassembly of three-dimensional (3D) tissue constructs represents a
rapidly emerging scaffold-and label-free approach and alternative conceptual advance in …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Progress and challenges in large-scale expansion of human pluripotent stem cells

C Kropp, D Massai, R Zweigerdt - Process Biochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
The constant supply of high cell numbers generated by defined, robust, and economically
viable culture processes is indispensable for the envisioned application of human …

[PDF][PDF] Large‐scale production of LGR5‐positive bipotential human liver stem cells

K Schneeberger, N Sánchez‐Romero, S Ye… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background and Aims The gap between patients on transplant waiting lists and available
donor organs is steadily increasing. Human organoids derived from leucine‐rich repeat …

[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 …

A review of manufacturing capabilities of cell spheroid generation technologies and future development

D Liu, S Chen, M Win Naing - Biotechnology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Spheroid culture provides cells with a three‐dimensional environment that can better mimic
physiological conditions compared to monolayer culture. Technologies involved in the …