In the last two decades, microfluidics has emerged as a powerful tool of high precision and
versatility, mainly applied to biomedicine. As a result of its strengths, the literature …

Transplantation of pancreatic islets encapsulated within immuno-protective microcapsules is
a strategy that has the potential to overcome graft rejection without the need for toxic …

Islet transplantation is a promising long-term, compliance-free, complication-preventing
treatment for type 1 diabetes. However, islet transplantation is currently limited to a narrow …

Cell culture typically employs inexpensive, disposable plasticware, and standard humidified
CO2/room air incubators (5% CO2,∼ 20% oxygen). These methods have historically proven …

Chronic and degenerative diseases are the main causes of death in the aging population
worldwide. These diseases are currently maintained using long term administration of …

Alginate as a versatile naturally occurring biomaterial has found widespread use in the
biomedical field due to its unique features such as biocompatibility and biodegradability …

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease that results in the progressive destruction of
insulin-producing pancreatic β-cells inside the islets of Langerhans. The loss of this vital …

To support the increasing translational use of transplanted cells, there is a need for high-
throughput cell encapsulation technologies. Microfluidics is a particularly promising …

Increasing numbers of requests for transplantable organs and their scarcity has led to a
pressing need to find alternative solutions to standard transplantation. An appealing but …

胰岛移植是治疗糖尿病的有效方案之一, 但目前仍存在供者短缺以及长期应用免疫抑制剂所致的
不良反应等问题, 导致移植后胰岛存活受限. 微囊化胰岛移植技术可在一定程度上克服这些困难 …