3D Microfluidic Culture Platform
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 May 2021) | Viewed by 255
Special Issue Editor
Interests: immunotherapy and cell therapy; organ-on-a-chip; cancer in-vitro models; drug screening platforms; tumor microenvironment
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
It is my pleasure to announce this Special Issue on “3D Microfluidic Technologies for Cell Culture” to highlight new advances in this exciting field. I would be delighted if you would contribute either a full article or a technical note.
In the past decade, 3D cell culture systems involving microfluidic technologies have significantly contributed to meaningful scientific discoveries. In vitro 3D cell culture models as a bridge between conventional 2D cell culture models and complex in vivo animal models have been increasingly adopted. A carefully designed 3D model can now run biological assays with animal-model-like complexities but with the simplicity and affordability of traditional cell cultures. Recent works involving 3D microfluidic platforms have demonstrated their advantages in drug screening applications for a plethora of diseases. Nowadays, the pharma market is adopting these technologies in their drug development process.
With this Special Issue, we would like to highlight the benefits but also the challenges in the adoption of this exciting technology. This compelling technology is positioned to become the next gold standard for in vitro diagnostics to explore biological processes involving cell-to-cell interactions and cell signalling under physiological-like conditions. Drug optimization, screening, and toxicology tests are only a few of the possible applications to be considered in this Special Issue. Biological models replicating the complex three-dimensional architecture of tissue or organs are also of interest for this Special Issue, as well as studies related to the progression of diseases such as cancer. Current developments on the body-, human- and multi-organ-on-a-chip models are welcome.
I am looking forward to the production of an excellent Special Issue.
Dr. Andrea Pavesi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- 3D cell culture
- organ on a chip
- cancer in vitro models
- disease models
- drug screening platforms
- tumor microenvironment
- multicellular culture
- organoids
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