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) …

A role for microfluidic systems in precision medicine

JM Ayuso, M Virumbrales-Muñoz, JM Lang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Precision oncology continues to challenge the “one-size-fits-all” dogma. Under the precision
oncology banner, cancer patients are screened for molecular tumor alterations that predict …

Organ-on-a-chip: a new paradigm for drug development

C Ma, Y Peng, H Li, W Chen - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2021 - cell.com
The pharmaceutical industry has been desperately searching for efficient drug discovery
methods. Organ-on-a-Chip, a cutting-edge technology that can emulate the physiological …

Microfluidic formulation of topological hydrogels for microtissue engineering

KO Rojek, M Cwiklinska, J Kuczak… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Microfluidics has recently emerged as a powerful tool in generation of submillimeter-sized
cell aggregates capable of performing tissue-specific functions, so-called microtissues, for …

Microfluidic organ-on-a-chip: a guide to biomaterial choice and fabrication

UMN Cao, Y Zhang, J Chen, D Sayson, S Pillai… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Organ-on-A-chip (OoAC) devices are miniaturized, functional, in vitro constructs that aim to
recapitulate the in vivo physiology of an organ using different cell types and extracellular …

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 …

Advances in organ-on-a-chip engineering

B Zhang, A Korolj, BFL Lai, M Radisic - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Predicting the effects of drugs before human clinical trials is at the heart of drug screening
and discovery processes. The cost of drug discovery is steadily increasing owing to the …

[HTML][HTML] Evolution of biochip technology: A review from lab-on-a-chip to organ-on-a-chip

N Azizipour, R Avazpour, DH Rosenzweig, M Sawan… - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Following the advancements in microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip (LOC) technologies, a novel
biomedical application for microfluidic based devices has emerged in recent years and …

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 …