Stem cell cultivation in bioreactors

CAV Rodrigues, TG Fernandes, MM Diogo… - Biotechnology …, 2011 - Elsevier
Cell-based therapies have generated great interest in the scientific and medical
communities, and stem cells in particular are very appealing for regenerative medicine, drug …

Lab-on-a-chip devices as an emerging platform for stem cell biology

K Gupta, DH Kim, D Ellison, C Smith, A Kundu, J Tuan… - Lab on a Chip, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
The advent of stem cell based therapies has brought regenerative medicine into an
increased focus as a part of the modern medicine practice, with a potential to treat a myriad …

High-throughput analysis of single hematopoietic stem cell proliferation in microfluidic cell culture arrays

V Lecault, M VanInsberghe, S Sekulovic… - Nature …, 2011 - nature.com
Heterogeneity in cell populations poses a major obstacle to understanding complex
biological processes. Here we present a microfluidic platform containing thousands of …

Microfluidic devices as tools for mimicking the in vivo environment

K Ziółkowska, R Kwapiszewski, Z Brzózka - New Journal of Chemistry, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the major branches of microfluidic development is cell engineering. A number of
devices for cell cultivation, lysis, single-cell analysis and cell-based toxicity tests have been …

Microfluidic single cell arrays to interrogate signalling dynamics of individual, patient-derived hematopoietic stem cells

SL Faley, M Copland, D Wlodkowic, W Kolch… - Lab on a Chip, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
Stem cells hold great promise as a means of treating otherwise incurable, degenerative
diseases due to their ability both to self-renew and differentiate. However, stem cell damage …

Strategies for improving the physiological relevance of human engineered tissues

RD Abbott, DL Kaplan - Trends in biotechnology, 2015 - cell.com
This review examines important robust methods for sustained, steady-state, in vitro culture.
To achieve 'physiologically relevant'tissues in vitro additional complexity must be introduced …

Optimal periodic perfusion strategy for robust long-term microfluidic cell culture

S Giulitti, E Magrofuoco, L Prevedello, N Elvassore - Lab on a Chip, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Long-term cell culture in microfluidic devices is an essential prerequisite for “on a chip”
biological and physiological based studies. We investigated how medium delivery, from …

Probing embryonic stem cell autocrine and paracrine signaling using microfluidics

L Przybyla, J Voldman - Annual review of analytical chemistry, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Although stem cell fate is traditionally manipulated by exogenously altering the cells'
extracellular signaling environment, the endogenous autocrine and paracrine signals …

Micro-and nanoengineering for stem cell biology: the promise with a caution

DH Kim, DJ Beebe, A Levchenko - Trends in biotechnology, 2011 - cell.com
Current techniques used in stem cell research only crudely mimic the physiological
complexity of the stem cell niches. Recent advances in the field of micro-and …

Micro/nanoengineered technologies for human pluripotent stem cells maintenance and differentiation

SN Esfahani, AMR Irizarry, X Xue, SBD Lee, Y Shao… - Nano Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) are a promising source of cells for cell replacement-
based therapies as well as modeling human development and diseases in vitro. However …