Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 135(5) 417-422 May 2023 [Refereed]
Technologies for efficiently expanding Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells, the primary host cells for antibody production, are of growing industrial importance. Various processes for the use of microcarriers in CHO suspension cultures have been dev...
Mai Takagi   Masumi Yamada   Rie Utoh   Minoru Seki   
LAB ON A CHIP 23(9) 2257-2267 May 2023 [Refereed]
Spheroid formation assisted by microengineered chambers is a versatile approach for morphology-controlled three-dimensional (3D) cell cultivation with physiological relevance to human tissues. However, the limitation in diffusion-based oxygen/nutr...
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering 133(3) 265-272 Mar 2022 [Refereed]
Numerous attempts have been made to organize isolated primary hepatocytes into functional three-dimensional (3D) constructs, but technologies to introduce extracellular matrix (ECM) components into such assemblies have not been fully developed. He...
Numerous attempts have been made to develop efficient systems to purify trace amounts of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood samples. However, current technologies are limited by complexities in device fabrication, system design, and process...