Modelling cancer in microfluidic human organs-on-chips

A Sontheimer-Phelps, BA Hassell, DE Ingber - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019‏ - nature.com
One of the problems that has slowed the development and approval of new anticancer
therapies is the lack of preclinical models that can be used to identify key molecular, cellular …

Three-dimensional cell cultures in drug discovery and development

Y Fang, RM Eglen - Slas discovery: Advancing Life Sciences …, 2017‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The past decades have witnessed significant efforts toward the development of three-
dimensional (3D) cell cultures as systems that better mimic in vivo physiology. Today, 3D …

In Vitro Tumor Models: Advantages, Disadvantages, Variables, and Selecting the Right Platform

ME Katt, AL Placone, AD Wong, ZS Xu… - … in bioengineering and …, 2016‏ - frontiersin.org
In vitro tumor models have provided important tools for cancer research and serve as low-
cost screening platforms for drug therapies; however, cancer recurrence remains largely …

Modular microfluidics for life sciences

J Wu, H Fang, J Zhang, S Yan - Journal of Nanobiotechnology, 2023‏ - Springer
The advancement of microfluidics has enabled numerous discoveries and technologies in
life sciences. However, due to the lack of industry standards and configurability, the design …

A review of cell adhesion studies for biomedical and biological applications

AA Khalili, MR Ahmad - International journal of molecular sciences, 2015‏ - mdpi.com
Cell adhesion is essential in cell communication and regulation, and is of fundamental
importance in the development and maintenance of tissues. The mechanical interactions …

Microfluidic organs-on-chips

SN Bhatia, DE Ingber - Nature biotechnology, 2014‏ - nature.com
An organ-on-a-chip is a microfluidic cell culture device created with microchip manufacturing
methods that contains continuously perfused chambers inhabited by living cells arranged to …

Organs-on-chips at the frontiers of drug discovery

EW Esch, A Bahinski, D Huh - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2015‏ - nature.com
Improving the effectiveness of preclinical predictions of human drug responses is critical to
reducing costly failures in clinical trials. Recent advances in cell biology, microfabrication …

On-chip human microvasculature assay for visualization and quantification of tumor cell extravasation dynamics

MB Chen, JA Whisler, J Fröse, C Yu, Y Shin… - Nature protocols, 2017‏ - nature.com
Distant metastasis, which results in> 90% of cancer-related deaths, is enabled by
hematogenous dissemination of tumor cells via the circulation. This requires the completion …

Organ‐on‐a‐chip platforms: a convergence of advanced materials, cells, and microscale technologies

S Ahadian, R Civitarese, D Bannerman… - Advanced …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Significant advances in biomaterials, stem cell biology, and microscale technologies have
enabled the fabrication of biologically relevant tissues and organs. Such tissues and organs …

Human 3D vascularized organotypic microfluidic assays to study breast cancer cell extravasation

JS Jeon, S Bersini, M Gilardi, G Dubini… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
A key aspect of cancer metastases is the tendency for specific cancer cells to home to
defined subsets of secondary organs. Despite these known tendencies, the underlying …