Microfluidics for Regenerative Medicine
A special issue of Micromachines (ISSN 2072-666X). This special issue belongs to the section "E：Engineering and Technology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 3556
Special Issue Editor
Interests: microfluidic sorting; microdroplet; microfluidic cell culture, stem cell, biomedicine
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The main purpose of regenerative medicine is to replace damaged human cells, tissues, or organs to restore or establish their normal function. Huge research efforts towards the development of new regenerative technologies have been made in which key players such as stem cells, soluble factors, biomaterials, or combinations thereof are involved. Nowadays, technological advancements have resulted in an increase in life expectancy, and therefore tissue and/or organ failure is inevitable in all of us as we age. To satisfy the need of damaged tissue replacement, a series of technologies providing fast and reliable assessment of biological performance to select both the potentially suitable candidates, and the early detection of poor ones, is urgently needed. Microfluidic technologies can be considered as “enabling technologies” or “tools” for accelerating research in regenerative medicine due to their well known capacity for the realization of high-throughput screening platforms. Moreover, microfluidic platforms have been demonstrated to be a unique biomimetic tool to create in vivo-like microenvironments (specifically, in the study of tissue cultures, the development of human disease culture models and hybrid technologies for assessing cell biology). Accordingly, this Special Issue seeks to showcase research papers, short communications, and review articles that focus on novel methodological developments in microfluidics applied for strategies towards regenerative medicine.
We look forward to receiving your submissions!
Dr. Pilar Carreras
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- microfluidics
- stem cells
- tissue engineering
- regenerative medicine
