Publications associées à Thermal gradients on a chip for the local stimulation of biological systems

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Bacterial colonization in realistic environments: how mechanics impact biofilm formation in the wild and during infection

A variety of physical inputs acts onto bacteria in nature. However, these are most often ignored in the studies of their physiology. There is now increasing evidence indicating that bacteria respond to physical stimuli, including mechanical forces. Yet, qu ...

EPFL2023

Microfluidic systems for in-flow bioanalytes collection

Pierre-Emmanuel Marie Thiriet

Microfluidic is an ensemble of technologies and methods that permits the handling and analysis of minute volumes of samples in short timescales. Since its introduction it revealed a remarkable potential to unveil novel biological mechanisms. The small volu ...

EPFL2022

A neural probe to sample brain fluid in nanoliter volumes for quantitative molecular studies

Joan Teixidor

Neural functions operate in tightly controlled conditions that are mediated by multiple electrical and chemical phenomena. Brain disorders such as Parkinson's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease perturb these conditions and cause a loss of neurons, which impai ...

EPFL2022

Long-term imaging, automated high-content phenotyping and sorting of C. elegans larvae and embryos using microfluidic platforms

Hüseyin Baris Atakan

C. elegans is frequently studied to address fundamental biological questions motivated by its short life cycle, small size, hermaphrodite behavior and well-annotated genome. In this work, we present novel microfluidic platforms that support long-term cultu ...

EPFL2019

Efficient transdifferentiation of human dermal fibroblasts into skeletal muscle

Noaf Salah Ali Alwahab

Skeletal muscle holds significant regenerative potential but is incapable of restoring tissue loss caused by severe injury, congenital defects or tumour ablation. Consequently, skeletal muscle models are being developed to study human pathophysiology and r ...

WILEY2018

Progress and potential in organoid research

Matthias Lütolf, Giuliana Rossi, Andrea Manfrin

Tissue and organ biology are very challenging to study in mammals, and progress can be hindered, particularly in humans, by sample accessibility and ethical concerns. However, advances in stem cell culture have made it possible to derive in vitro 3D tissue ...

2018

Stem cell niche engineering through photopatterning and microfluidics

Laura Kolb

The application of stem cells in drug screening and regenerative therapy has led to important advances in basic biology and biomedicine. Such strategies require high cell numbers and the efficient maturation into faithful functional organ or tissue units. ...

EPFL2016

Ultra-rapid prototyping of flexible, multi-layered microfluidic devices via razor writing

Matthias Lütolf, Nathalie Brandenberg, Steffen Cosson

The fabrication of microfluidic devices is often still a time-consuming and costly process. Here we introduce a very simple and cheap microfabrication process based on "razor writing", also termed xurography, for the ultra-rapid prototyping of microfluidic ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

New Tools for Hydrogel-Based 3D Bioprinting

Andrea Negro

The in vitro recapitulation of tissue and organ function represents one of the main objectives of tissue engineering. Developments in this field have numerous applications, from alleviating the shortage of donor organs to providingmore representative pla ...

EPFL2014

STEAM: a fast compact thermal model for two-phase cooling of integrated circuits

John Richard Thome, David Atienza Alonso, Arvind Raj Mahankali Sridhar, Yassir Madhour

Two-phase liquid cooling of computer chips via microchannels etched directly on silicon dies is a potential long-term solution to enable continued integration of high-performance multiprocessors. Two-phase cooling refers to the heat removal via evaporation ...

IEEE/ACM Press2013

Long-term maintenance of mouse embryonic stem cell pluripotency by manipulating integrin signaling within 3D scaffolds without active Stat3

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

We engineered an acellular biomimetic microenvironment to regulate stem cell fate and applied it to maintain mouse embryonic stem (ES) cell self-renewal. In the 3D environment formed using hydrogel scaffolds in which specific integrin ligation was provided ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012

The PiggyBac transposon enhances the frequency of CHO stable cell line generation and yields recombinant lines with superior productivity and stability

Florian Maria Wurm, David Hacker, Lucia Baldi Unser

Generating stable, high-producing mammalian cell lines is a major bottleneck in the manufacture of recombinant therapeutic proteins. Conventional gene transfer methods for cell line generation rely on random plasmid integration, resulting in unpredictable ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Combining multiple optical trapping with microflow manipulation for the rapid bioanalytics on microparticles in a chip

Philippe Renaud, René Salathé, Guy Delacrétaz, Fabrice Merenda, Johann Rohner

An array of four independent laser traps is combined with a polydimethylsiloxane microfluidic chip to form a very compact system allowing parallel processing of biological objects. Strong three dimensional trapping allows holding objects such as functional ...

American Institute of Physics2007

Temperature measurements in microfluidic systems: Heat dissipation of negative dielectrophoresis barriers

Marilia Panayiotou, Philippe Renaud, Martin Jordan, Urban Seger

The manipulation of living biological cells in microfluidic channels by a combination of negative dielectrophoretic barriers and pressure-driven flows is widely employed in lab-on-a-chip systems. However, electric fields in conducting media induce Joule he ...

2005