Can organ on a chip platforms be used to culture and maintain functional hematopoietic stem cells and progenitor cells (HSPC)? This is a recent paper from Sharipol et al. from the University of Rochester, culturing important components of murine bone marrow microenvironment (BMME) in an organ on a chip....
How can you use a tumor on a chip platform to study the effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) on lymphocytes and cancer cells? This is a recent paper from Sieviläinen et al. at the university of Helsinki that uses an organ on a chip, lymphocytes and head and...
Can organ on a chip systems be adopted for ADME and quantitative drug metabolism studies? This is a recent paper from Docci et al. from the University of Basel that use the liver on a chip from Cn-bio to estimate pharmacokinetic parameters and drug metabolism of cultured primary hepatocytes...
How can organ-on-a-chip improve cardiac microtissue maturation and function? Recapitulating complex myocardial tissue has always been challenging due to its complex biochemical and biophysical characteristics. This is a recent paper from Moreira et al. at the polytechnic university of Milan where the authors study how the perfusion of culture...
A beautiful thyroid-liver axis model of endocrine disruption studying the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)-dependent triiodothyronine (T3) secretion in a dynamic multi-organ chip. This is a joint publication between Bayer and TissUse with a beautiful characterization of the 3D liver and thyroid models. ResultsThe authors used different concentrations of TSH to...
An interesting paper from Kim and Rhee groups at Korea Basic Science Institute and Incheon National University co-culturing glioblastoma with microglial cells in a tumor on a chip. They investigated therapeutic effects of microRNAs on tumor progression in brain cancer. The authors loaded microRNA-124 into extracellular vesicles, as a potential therapeutic...
A beautiful paper from Jianhua Qin’s lab from the Chinese Academy of Sciences modelling Liver–pancreatic Islet Axis. They used a multi-organoid organ on a chip system to study glucose regulation in physiological and pathological conditions. After culturing the hiPSCs in “micro-wells” and creating embryonic bodies, the authors differentiated them...
Everyone can pipette conditioned media of an intestinal cell culture into a hepatocyte model to study intestine–liver interaction. But what if you could use the same cell models and not only to make this process automatic (save money), but also to control the cross-talk (more flexibility)? Enjoy this paper...
A recent paper from Cromwell et al. in Burow lab in Tulane university modeling multifunctional profile of breast cancer tumoroids to investigate the effect of relative anti-cancer drugs on tumoroid phenotype and cell metabolism function. Authors initially cultured cells isolated from patients in conventional cell culture dishes and later...
A nice collaborative paper from Stelzle, Gebhardt and Mayr labs in U. of Tübingen, Leipzig University and TU Graz monitoring oxygen and liver tissue metabolism in a well-plate format organ on a chip system. They used oxygen patches and optical fibers to monitor oxygen levels in the medium around...
