ReviewLab on a chip2018
Caring for cells in microsystems: principles and practices of cell-safe device design and operation.
Review in Lab on a chip, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Acoustic virtual walls enable open, scalable, and programmable microfluidics.Science advances · 2026Article
- Automated T-Cell Proliferation in Lab-on-Chip Devices Integrating Microfluidics and Deep Learning-Based Image Analysis for Long-Term Experiments.Biosensors · 2025Article
- Microfluidic Devices for Manufacture of Therapeutic Extracellular Vesicles: Advances and Opportunities.Journal of extracellular vesicles · 2025Review
- Open-Top Patterned Hydrogel-Laden 3D Glioma Cell Cultures for Creation of Dynamic Chemotactic Gradients to Direct Cell Migration.ACS biomaterials science & engineering · 2024Article
- Microscale combinatorial stimulation of human myeloid cells reveals inflammatory priming by viral ligands.Science advances · 2023Article
- Polymeric and biological membranes for organ-on-a-chip devices.Microsystems & nanoengineering · 2023Review
- Toward a modular, integrated, miniaturized, and portable microfluidic flow control architecture for organs-on-chips applications.Biomicrofluidics · 2022Article
- A Fast Alternative to Soft Lithography for the Fabrication of Organ-on-a-Chip Elastomeric-Based Devices and Microactuators.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2021Article
- Bandpass sorting of heterogeneous cells using a single surface acoustic wave transducer pair.Biomicrofluidics · 2021Article
- Miniaturized modular-array fluorescence microscopy.Biomedical optics express · 2020Article
- Translational Roadmap for the Organs-on-a-Chip Industry toward Broad Adoption.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Cell Adhesion, Morphology, and Metabolism Variation via Acoustic Exposure within Microfluidic Cell Handling Systems.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2019Article
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Microfluidic device designers and users continually question whether cells are 'happy' in a given microsystem or whether they are perturbed by micro-scale technologies. This issue is normally brought up by engineers building platforms, or by external reviewers (academic or commercial) comparing multiple technological approaches to a problem. Microsystems can apply combinations of biophysical and biochemical stimuli that, although essential to device operation, may damage cells in complex ways. However, assays to assess the impact of microsystems upon cells have been challenging to conduct and have led to subjective interpretation and evaluation of cell stressors, hampering development and adoption of microsystems. To this end, we introduce a framework that defines cell health, describes how device stimuli may stress cells, and contrasts approaches to measure cell stress. Importantly, we provide practical guidelines regarding device design and operation to minimize cell stress, and recommend a minimal set of quantitative assays that will enable standardization in the assessment of cell health in diverse devices. We anticipate that as microsystem designers, reviewers, and end-users enforce such guidelines, we as a community can create a set of essential principles that will further the adoption of such technologies in clinical, translational and commercial applications.
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