Controlled assembly of heterotypic cells in a core-shell scaffold: organ in a droplet.

Chen, Qiushui; Utech, Stefanie; Chen, Dong; Prodanovic, Radivoje; Lin, Jin-Ming; Weitz, David A · Lab Chip · 2016

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

This paper reports a droplet-based microfluidic approach to fabricate a large number of monodisperse, portable microtissues, each in an individual drop. We use water-water-oil double emulsions as templates and spatially assemble hepatocytes in the core and fibroblasts in the shell, forming a 3D liver model in a drop.

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