Biomaterial-based platforms for tumour tissue engineering

R Curvello, V Kast, P Ordóñez-Morán, A Mata… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Tissue engineering has produced innovative tools for cancer research. 3D cancer models
based on molecularly designed biomaterials aim to harness the dimensionality and …

Tumor heterogeneity: preclinical models, emerging technologies, and future applications

M Proietto, M Crippa, C Damiani, V Pasquale… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Heterogeneity describes the differences among cancer cells within and between tumors. It
refers to cancer cells describing variations in morphology, transcriptional profiles …

Recent advances for cancer detection and treatment by microfluidic technology, review and update

N Bargahi, S Ghasemali, S Jahandar-Lashaki… - Biological Procedures …, 2022 - Springer
Numerous cancer-associated deaths are owing to a lack of effective diagnostic and
therapeutic approaches. Microfluidic systems for analyzing a low volume of samples offer a …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer-on-a-chip: Models for studying metastasis

X Zhang, M Karim, MM Hasan, J Hooper, R Wahab… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Microfluidic-based cancer-on-a-chip models are powerful tools to study the
tumor microenvironment (TME). Two-dimensional cell culture cannot recapitulate TME. In …

Microfluidics in vascular biology research: a critical review for engineers, biologists, and clinicians

G Simitian, M Virumbrales-Muñoz… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Neovascularization, the formation of new blood vessels, has received much research
attention due to its implications for physiological processes and diseases. Most studies …

Recent advances in microfluidics-based cell migration research

J Ren, N Wang, P Guo, Y Fan, F Lin, J Wu - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Cell migration is crucial for many biological processes, including normal development,
immune response, and tissue homeostasis and many pathological processes such as …

Cancer Metastasis‐on‐a‐Chip for Modeling Metastatic Cascade and Drug Screening

A Brooks, Y Zhang, J Chen… - Advanced healthcare …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Microfluidic chips are valuable tools for studying intricate cellular and cell–microenvironment
interactions. Traditional in vitro cancer models lack accuracy in mimicking the complexities …

The role of circular RNA during the urological cancer metastasis: exploring regulatory mechanisms and potential therapeutic targets

Y Xu, Z Gao, X Sun, J Li, T Ozaki, D Shi, M Yu… - Cancer and Metastasis …, 2024 - Springer
Metastasis is a major contributor to treatment failure and death in urological cancers,
representing an important biomedical challenge at present. Metastases form as a result of …

[HTML][HTML] On-chip modeling of tumor evolution: Advances, challenges and opportunities

C Li, JB Holman, Z Shi, B Qiu, W Ding - Materials Today Bio, 2023 - Elsevier
Tumor evolution is the accumulation of various tumor cell behaviors from tumorigenesis to
tumor metastasis and is regulated by the tumor microenvironment (TME). However, the …

Recent advances in cancer-on-a-chip tissue models to dissect the tumour microenvironment

K Seaman, Y Sun, L You - Med-X, 2023 - Springer
Three-dimensional cancer-on-a-chip tissue models aim to replicate the key hallmarks of the
tumour microenvironment and allow for the study of dynamic interactions that occur during …