BioERA

BioERA lab is an interdisciplinary environment composed by people from biology, biotechnology, material science, chemical and biomedical engineering.
We are located at the Dept. of Industrial Engineering of University of Padova and within the Venetian Institute of Molecular Medicine (VIMM), which is supported by the Foundation of Advanced Biomedical Research.

Paper: High-efficiency cellular reprogramming with microfluidics
— 18 July 2016

We report that the efficiency of reprogramming human somatic cells to induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) can…
Review: Mechanotransduction through micro-engineering
— 13 March 2016

A review on mechanotransduction using substrates and microfluidic devices is now available on Current Opinion in Chemical…
Paper: Functional differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells on a chip
— 11 June 2015

Microengineering human “organs-on-chips” remains an open challenge. Here, we describe a robust microfluidics-based approach for the differentiation…