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 …

Immunotherapy discovery on tumor organoid-on-a-chip platforms that recapitulate the tumor microenvironment

J Zhang, H Tavakoli, L Ma, X Li, L Han, XJ Li - Advanced drug delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer immunotherapy has achieved remarkable success over the past decade by
modulating patients' own immune systems and unleashing pre-existing immunity. However …

Tumor spheroid-on-a-chip: a standardized microfluidic culture platform for investigating tumor angiogenesis

J Ko, J Ahn, S Kim, Y Lee, J Lee, D Park, NL Jeon - Lab on a Chip, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of microfluidics-based three-dimensional (3D) cell culture system is rapidly
progressing from academic proof-of-concept studies to valid solutions to real-world …

3D cancer models: One step closer to in vitro human studies

N Manduca, E Maccafeo, R De Maria, A Sistigu… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cancer immunotherapy is the great breakthrough in cancer treatment as it displayed
prolonged progression-free survival over conventional therapies, yet, to date, in only a …

Micro-engineering and nano-engineering approaches to investigate tumour ecosystems

M Kim, M Panagiotakopoulou, C Chen, SB Ruiz… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The interactions among tumour cells, the tumour microenvironment (TME) and non-tumour
tissues are of interest to many cancer researchers. Micro-engineering approaches and …

A microfluidic platform for cultivating ovarian cancer spheroids and testing their responses to chemotherapies

N Dadgar, AM Gonzalez-Suarez, P Fattahi… - Microsystems & …, 2020 - nature.com
There is increasing interest in utilizing in vitro cultures as patient avatars to develop
personalized treatment for cancer. Typical cultures utilize Matrigel-coated plates and media …

3D tumor spheroid microarray for high-throughput, high-content natural killer cell-mediated cytotoxicity

S Gopal, SJ Kwon, B Ku, DW Lee, J Kim… - Communications …, 2021 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has emerged as a promising approach to treating several forms of cancer.
Use of immune cells, such as natural killer (NK) cells, along with small molecule drugs and …

[HTML][HTML] Immunocompetent cancer-on-chip models to assess immuno-oncology therapy

TI Maulana, E Kromidas, L Wallstabe… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2021 - Elsevier
The advances in cancer immunotherapy come with several obstacles, limiting its
widespread use and benefits so far only to a small subset of patients. One of the underlying …

Proteinaceous hydrogels for bioengineering advanced 3D tumor models

B Blanco‐Fernandez, VM Gaspar, E Engel… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The establishment of tumor microenvironment using biomimetic in vitro models that
recapitulate key tumor hallmarks including the tumor supporting extracellular matrix (ECM) is …

Engineering organ-on-a-chip to accelerate translational research

J Ko, D Park, S Lee, B Gumuscu, NL Jeon - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
We guide the use of organ-on-chip technology in tissue engineering applications. Organ-on-
chip technology is a form of microengineered cell culture platform that elaborates the in-vivo …