Cell culture in microfluidic droplets

S Sart, G Ronteix, S Jain, G Amselem… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Cell manipulation in droplets has emerged as one of the great successes of microfluidic
technologies, with the development of single-cell screening. However, the droplet format has …

Superhydrophobic materials for biomedical applications

EJ Falde, ST Yohe, YL Colson, MW Grinstaff - Biomaterials, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Superhydrophobic surfaces are actively studied across a wide range of applications and
industries, and are now finding increased use in the biomedical arena as substrates to …

Life is 3D: boosting spheroid function for tissue engineering

MW Laschke, MD Menger - Trends in biotechnology, 2017‏ - cell.com
Spheroids provide a 3D environment with intensive cell–cell contacts. As a result of their
excellent regenerative properties and rapid progress in their high-throughput production …

Engineering multi‐cellular spheroids for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine

S Kim, EM Kim, M Yamamoto, H Park… - Advanced Healthcare …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Multi‐cellular spheroids are formed as a 3D structure with dense cell–cell/cell–extracellular
matrix interactions, and thus, have been widely utilized as implantable therapeutics and …

Spheroids-on-a-chip: Recent advances and design considerations in microfluidic platforms for spheroid formation and culture

K Moshksayan, N Kashaninejad, ME Warkiani… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
A cell spheroid is a three-dimensional (3D) aggregation of cells. Synthetic, in-vitro spheroids
provide similar metabolism, proliferation, and species concentration gradients to those found …

Droplet microarrays: from surface patterning to high‐throughput applications

W Feng, E Ueda, PA Levkin - Advanced materials, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
High‐throughput screening of live cells and chemical reactions in isolated droplets is an
important and growing method in areas ranging from studies of gene functions and the …

Design of spherically structured 3D in vitro tumor models-Advances and prospects

LP Ferreira, VM Gaspar, JF Mano - Acta biomaterialia, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Three-dimensional multicellular tumor models are receiving an ever-growing focus as
preclinical drug-screening platforms due to their potential to recapitulate major physiological …

The therapeutic potential of three-dimensional multipotent mesenchymal stromal cell spheroids

Y Petrenko, E Syková, Š Kubinová - Stem cell research & therapy, 2017‏ - Springer
The efficiency of clinical trials involving transplantation of multipotent mesenchymal stromal
cells (MSCs) is often insufficient due to harsh conditions present within the target tissue …

Organ-on-a-chip: A new tool for in vitro research

J Yan, Z Li, J Guo, S Liu, J Guo - Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Organ-on-a-chip (OOC, organ chip) technology can closely simulate the human
microenvironment, synthesize organ-like functional units on a fluidic chip substrate, and …

Patterning wettability for open-surface fluidic manipulation: fundamentals and applications

P Sinha Mahapatra, R Ganguly, A Ghosh… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Effective manipulation of liquids on open surfaces without external energy input is
indispensable for the advancement of point-of-care diagnostic devices. Open-surface …