Organ-on-chip technology's development and usages: A comprehensive review

Abstract

Organ-on-a-chip technology is a new development technology that has made great contributions to the field of biomedicine-medicine, which began to be studied in 1950 but has not achieved effective results. With the development of technology and the passage of time, the first successful organ-on-a-chip products were introduced in 1990. Organ-on-chip technology has broken through the limitations of human drug testing and pathological research, solved the problem of unsatisfactory efficacy after using animal simulation, and greatly promoted the development of pathology and pharmacology. Organ-on-a-chip refers to the cell culture of human organs on a chip to simulate the function and characteristics of human organs, providing a new way for disease treatment and drug research and development. The researchers began by trying to grow cells on artificial substrates to mimic the structure and function of human organs. Organ-on-a-chip technology can process cell cultures while improving the environment for human drug testing and pathology research, truly simulating and performing experiments on humans. Organ-on-a-chip is a cell culture analog that utilizes a microfluidic device in which microchannels are used to guide and manipulate the solution. In recent years, with the development of bio print technology, the research of organ chips has entered a new stage. Bioprinting allows cells and biomaterials to be arranged in predetermined patterns and structures to build tissues and organs with specific functions. At present, the research of organ chips can already help us complete the test drug and case analysis, the development time of this technology is very short, and there is still a lot of development and exploration space in the future.