Three-dimensional (3D) culture of multicellular spheroids, offering a desirable biomimetic microenvironment, is appropriate for recapitulating tissue cellular adhesive complexity and revealing a more realistic drug response.
Multicellular spheroids represent a promising approach to mimic 3D tissues in vivo for emerging applications in regenerative medicine, therapeutic screening, and drug discovery.Conventional spheroid fabrication methods, such as the hanging drop method, suffer from low throughput, long time, complicated procedure, and high heterogeneity in spheroid size. In this work, we report a simple yet reliable acoustic method to rapidly assemble cell spheroids in capillaries in a replicable and scalable manner. Briefly, by introducing a coupled standing surface acoustic wave, we are able to generate a linear pressure node array with 300 trapping nodes simultaneously. This enables us to continuously fabricate spheroids in a highthroughput manner with minimal variability in spheroid size. In a proof of concept application, we fabricated cell spheroids of mouse embryonic carcinoma (P19) cells, which grew well and retaineddifferentiation potential in vitro. Based on the advantages of the non-invasive, contactless and label-free acoustic cell manipulation, our method employs the coupling strategy to assemble cells in capillaries, and further advances 3D spheroid assembly technology in and easy, cost-efficient, consistent, and high throughput manner. This method could further be adapted into a novel 3D biofabrication approach to replicate compilated tissues and organs for a wide set of biomedical applications.
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