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 …

Human organs-on-chips for disease modelling, drug development and personalized medicine

DE Ingber - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
The failure of animal models to predict therapeutic responses in humans is a major problem
that also brings into question their use for basic research. Organ-on-a-chip (organ chip) …

[HTML][HTML] Biomedical applications of microfluidic devices: a review

G Gharib, İ Bütün, Z Muganlı, G Kozalak, İ Namlı… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Both passive and active microfluidic chips are used in many biomedical and chemical
applications to support fluid mixing, particle manipulations, and signal detection. Passive …

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 …

Organ-on-a-chip meets artificial intelligence in drug evaluation

S Deng, C Li, J Cao, Z Cui, J Du, Z Fu, H Yang… - …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Drug evaluation has always been an important area of research in the pharmaceutical
industry. However, animal welfare protection and other shortcomings of traditional drug …

Recent advances on cell culture platforms for in vitro drug screening and cell therapies: from conventional to microfluidic strategies

BD Cardoso, EMS Castanheira… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The clinical translations of drugs and nanomedicines depend on coherent pharmaceutical
research based on biologically accurate screening approaches. Since establishing the 2D in …

Organs-on-a-chip: a fast track for engineered human tissues in drug development

K Ronaldson-Bouchard, G Vunjak-Novakovic - Cell stem cell, 2018 - cell.com
Organs-on-a-chip (OOCs) are miniature tissues and organs grown in vitro that enable
modeling of human physiology and disease. The technology has emerged from converging …

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 …

Beyond polydimethylsiloxane: alternative materials for fabrication of organ-on-a-chip devices and microphysiological systems

SB Campbell, Q Wu, J Yazbeck, C Liu… - ACS biomaterials …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is the predominant material used for organ-on-a-chip devices
and microphysiological systems (MPSs) due to its ease-of-use, elasticity, optical …

Second-generation lung-on-a-chip with an array of stretchable alveoli made with a biological membrane

P Zamprogno, S Wüthrich, S Achenbach… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
The air-blood barrier with its complex architecture and dynamic environment is difficult to
mimic in vitro. Lung-on-a-chips enable mimicking the breathing movements using a thin …