Recent progress in extrusion 3D bioprinting of hydrogel biomaterials for tissue regeneration: a comprehensive review with focus on advanced fabrication techniques

M Askari, MA Naniz, M Kouhi, A Saberi… - Biomaterials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Over the last decade, 3D bioprinting has received immense attention from research
communities for develo** functional tissues. Thanks to the complexity of tissues, various …

Brain-on-a-chip: Recent advances in design and techniques for microfluidic models of the brain in health and disease

L Amirifar, A Shamloo, R Nasiri, NR de Barros… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent advances in biomaterials, microfabrication, microfluidics, and cell biology have led to
the development of organ-on-a-chip devices that can reproduce key functions of various …

Modeling alpha-synuclein pathology in a human brain-chip to assess blood-brain barrier disruption

I Pediaditakis, KR Kodella, DV Manatakis, CY Le… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Parkinson's disease and related synucleinopathies are characterized by the abnormal
accumulation of alpha-synuclein aggregates, loss of dopaminergic neurons, and gliosis of …

[HTML][HTML] The technology, opportunities and challenges of synthetic biological intelligence

BJ Kagan, C Gyngell, T Lysaght, VM Cole… - Biotechnology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Integrating neural cultures developed through synthetic biology methods with digital
computing has enabled the early development of Synthetic Biological Intelligence (SBI) …

Advances in engineering human tissue models

CM Moysidou, C Barberio, RM Owens - Frontiers in bioengineering …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Research in cell biology greatly relies on cell-based in vitro assays and models that facilitate
the investigation and understanding of specific biological events and processes under …

3D neural tissue models: From spheroids to bioprinting

P Zhuang, AX Sun, J An, CK Chua, SY Chew - Biomaterials, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) in vitro neural tissue models provide a better recapitulation
of in vivo cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix interactions than conventional two …

Recent progress in translational engineered in vitro models of the central nervous system

P Nikolakopoulou, R Rauti, D Voulgaris, I Shlomy… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The complexity of the human brain poses a substantial challenge for the development of
models of the CNS. Current animal models lack many essential human characteristics (in …

3D bioprinting applications in neural tissue engineering for spinal cord injury repair

T Bedir, S Ulag, CB Ustundag, O Gunduz - Materials Science and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is a disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that has not yet
been treated successfully. In the United States, almost 450,000 people suffer from SCI …

From cells to organoids: The evolution of blood-brain barrier technology for modelling drug delivery in brain cancer

E Gonzales-Aloy, A Ahmed-Cox, M Tsoli… - Advanced Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Brain cancer remains the deadliest cancer. The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is impenetrable to
most drugs and is a complex 3D network of multiple cell types including endothelial cells …

Human mini-brain models

HY Tan, H Cho, LP Lee - Nature biomedical engineering, 2021 - nature.com
Engineered human mini-brains, made possible by knowledge from the convergence of
precision microengineering and cell biology, permit systematic studies of complex …