How does the Internet of Things (IoT) help in microalgae biorefinery?

K Wang, KS Khoo, HY Leong, D Nagarajan… - Biotechnology …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microalgae biorefinery is a platform for the conversion of microalgal biomass into a variety of
value-added products, such as biofuels, bio-based chemicals, biomaterials, and bioactive …

Recent advances in microfluidic technologies for cell-to-cell interaction studies

M Rothbauer, H Zirath, P Ertl - Lab on a Chip, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidic cell cultures are ideally positioned to become the next generation of in vitro
diagnostic tools for biomedical research, where key biological processes such as cell …

Engineered organoids for biomedical applications

NR de Barros, C Wang, S Maity, A Peirsman… - Advanced drug delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
As miniaturized and simplified stem cell-derived 3D organ-like structures, organoids are
rapidly emerging as powerful tools for biomedical applications. With their potential for …

Integrating biosensors in organs-on-chip devices: A perspective on current strategies to monitor microphysiological systems

E Ferrari, C Palma, S Vesentini, P Occhetta, M Rasponi - Biosensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Organs-on-chip (OoC), often referred to as microphysiological systems (MPS), are advanced
in vitro tools able to replicate essential functions of human organs. Owing to their …

3D skin models along with skin-on-a-chip systems: A critical review

W Sun, Z Liu, J Xu, Y Cheng, R Yin, L Ma, H Li… - Chinese Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Skin is the largest organ in human body, and it plays an important role in regulating
physiological microenvironments and acts as a barrier to protect human body from harmful …

Latest trends in biosensing for microphysiological organs-on-a-chip and body-on-a-chip systems

SRA Kratz, G Höll, P Schuller, P Ertl, M Rothbauer - Biosensors, 2019 - mdpi.com
Organs-on-chips are considered next generation in vitro tools capable of recreating in vivo
like, physiological-relevant microenvironments needed to cultivate 3D tissue-engineered …

Advances in microfluidics for single red blood cell analysis

GV Grigorev, AV Lebedev, X Wang, X Qian… - Biosensors, 2023 - mdpi.com
The utilizations of microfluidic chips for single RBC (red blood cell) studies have attracted
great interests in recent years to filter, trap, analyze, and release single erythrocytes for …

Tomorrow today: organ-on-a-chip advances towards clinically relevant pharmaceutical and medical in vitro models

M Rothbauer, JM Rosser, H Zirath, P Ertl - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Physiologically relevant organ models based on microfabrication and
bioengineering.•Recent progress on organ-on-a-chip systems simulating kidney, brain, lung …

Small force, big impact: Next generation organ-on-a-chip systems incorporating biomechanical cues

E Ergir, B Bachmann, H Redl, G Forte, P Ertl - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Mechanobiology-on-a-chip is a growing field focusing on how mechanical inputs modulate
physico-chemical output in microphysiological systems. It is well known that biomechanical …

Characterization of four functional biocompatible pressure-sensitive adhesives for rapid prototyping of cell-based lab-on-a-chip and organ-on-a-chip systems

SRA Kratz, C Eilenberger, P Schuller, B Bachmann… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
In the advent of affordable photo-and soft-lithography using polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS),
low cost multi-step microfabrication methods have become available to a broad scientific …