Novel Microfluidic Cell Culture Technologies
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "B：Biology and Biomedicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 211
Special Issue Editors
Interests: mechanobiology; cancer; diagnostics; cell biology; cell biomechanics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cell culture within the microfluidic system is significantly impacting cell biology research, having helped to create a new standard for cell culture-based models for human diseases. Microfluidic cell culture is a step toward the in vitro modeling of interconnected organoids, known as organ-on-a-chip. Once the development of organ-on-a-chip systems is applied to human diseases such as cancer, it will contribute to designing personalized treatments and, hence, improving health outcomes. Moreover, incorporation of various mechanobiological functions such as stretching systems in this technology will lead to next-generation on-chip models mimicking flexible tissue and muscle cells. Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on 1) significant developments in the field of microfluidic cell culture, 2) 3D culture, 3) strategies and techniques for the design and fabrication of microfluidic systems and devices for cell culture, 4) investigation of the effect of stretching on microfluidic cell stretching platforms, and 5) the development of organ models and systems for specific applications in disease modeling and drug discovery.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Sharda Yadav
Dr. Raja Kumar Vadivelu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- microfluidic cell culture
- organ-on-a-chip
- cell stretching
- 3D culture
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