A recent paper from Jang et al. from Kuh’s lab at the Catholic University of Korea co-culturing pancreatic cancer cells with fibroblasts and macrophages to create a 3D tumor on a chip model. The paper evaluates the culture of the cancer cells with and without the stromal cells and...
A recent paper from Le Pioufle lab at CNRS France modelling the microstructure of the hepatic cord within the liver by confining hepatocytes in tiny hepatic-cord like chambers in a liver on a chip system. These chambers are in contact with another channel containing various media through tiny slits...
A Very beautiful paper from Park (Sungkyunkwan U.) and Sung (Hongik U.) labs integrating intestine on a chip and kidney on a chip in one model to study the effect of two antibiotics on E. coli infection and their consequences on kidney injury. This multi-organ on a chip model...
A beautiful paper from Ertl group at Vienna University of Technology co-culturing synovial and chondral organoids in a joint on a chip to study Rheumatoid Arthritis. They used a compartmentalized chip to establish a cross-talk between Matrigel embedded synovial organoids and chondral organoids embedded in a fibrin gel. It...
A recent paper from Jain lab at Texas A&M University that studies the extravasation of platelets into the ovarian tumor microenvironment in a microfluidic chip. The presented tumor-on-a-chip reveals the dynamics of cancer cell-platelet interaction towards more metastatic behavior in cancer cells. Results The authors published a similar technology...
A beautiful paper from Hasse lab at EMBL Barcelona modelling fibrosis in the lung and heart to study the implications of fibrosis on microvasculature. They used a macro-scale side-by-side channel chip, previously developed in the lab of Roger Kamm. The authors developed this vasculature on a chip to assess...
This recently published paper from Musah lab at Duke university is a beautiful validation of using kidney on a chip to model glomerular filtration. This tissue chip was lined by epithelial and endothelial cells to mimic the blood filtration barrier and selective molecular filtration function of the kidney. Using...
A recently published paper from Hesperos Inc./Hickman lab at University of Central Florida co-culturing human hepatocytes and adipocytes representing white adipose tissue. In this multi-organ on a chip different serum-free media formulations were used to represent different human metabolic states. Results The system made the crosstalk between liver-on-a-chip and...
A beautiful paper from Moretti/Lopa group integrating cartilage-on-a-chip and synovium-on-a-chip to present a unique joint-on-a-chip model. This model recapitulated monocyte extravasation into the synovium of patients with osteoarthritis. The system was composed of synovial compartment included a perfusable endothelialized channel for monocyte injection, a chondral compartments, and a channel...
Not many systems can mimic the Aerobic-Anaerobic interface of the large intestine. A not-so-old paper from the Wyss institute creates a hypoxic gradient across their intestine-on-a-chip. In this study, the chip comprised epithelial cells on top of a porous membrane and bacteria cultured above the epithelium under a hypoxia...
