A guide to the organ-on-a-chip

CM Leung, P De Haan… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Organs-on-chips (OoCs) are systems containing engineered or natural miniature
tissues grown inside microfluidic chips. To better mimic human physiology, the chips are …

Engineering organoids

M Hofer, MP Lutolf - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids are in vitro miniaturized and simplified model systems of organs that have gained
enormous interest for modelling tissue development and disease, and for personalized …

The gut microbial metabolite formate exacerbates colorectal cancer progression

D Ternes, M Tsenkova, VI Pozdeev, M Meyers… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The gut microbiome is a key player in the immunomodulatory and protumorigenic
microenvironment during colorectal cancer (CRC), as different gut-derived bacteria can …

Organs-on-chips: into the next decade

LA Low, C Mummery, BR Berridge, CP Austin… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Organs-on-chips (OoCs), also known as microphysiological systems or 'tissue
chips'(the terms are synonymous), have attracted substantial interest in recent years owing …

Homeostatic mini-intestines through scaffold-guided organoid morphogenesis

M Nikolaev, O Mitrofanova, N Broguiere, S Geraldo… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Epithelial organoids, such as those derived from stem cells of the intestine, have great
potential for modelling tissue and disease biology,,–. However, the approaches that are …

[HTML][HTML] The evolving role of investigative toxicology in the pharmaceutical industry

F Pognan, M Beilmann, H Boonen, A Czich… - Nature reviews drug …, 2023 - nature.com
For decades, preclinical toxicology was essentially a descriptive discipline in which
treatment-related effects were carefully reported and used as a basis to calculate safety …

Organ-on-a-chip: Recent breakthroughs and future prospects

Q Wu, J Liu, X Wang, L Feng, J Wu, X Zhu… - Biomedical engineering …, 2020 - Springer
The organ-on-a-chip (OOAC) is in the list of top 10 emerging technologies and refers to a
physiological organ biomimetic system built on a microfluidic chip. Through a combination of …

Delivery of oligonucleotide‐based therapeutics: challenges and opportunities

SM Hammond, A Aartsma‐Rus, S Alves… - EMBO molecular …, 2021 - embopress.org
Nucleic acid‐based therapeutics that regulate gene expression have been developed
towards clinical use at a steady pace for several decades, but in recent years the field has …

Conventional and emerging strategies for the fabrication and functionalization of PDMS-based microfluidic devices

A Shakeri, S Khan, TF Didar - Lab on a Chip, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Microfluidics is an emerging and multidisciplinary field that is of great interest to
manufacturers in medicine, biotechnology, and chemistry, as it provides unique tools for the …

3D in vitro morphogenesis of human intestinal epithelium in a gut-on-a-chip or a hybrid chip with a cell culture insert

W Shin, HJ Kim - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Human intestinal morphogenesis establishes 3D epithelial microarchitecture and spatially
organized crypt–villus characteristics. This unique structure is necessary to maintain …