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    Rezaei, Zahra; Navarro Torres, Andrea; Ge, David; Wang, Ting; Méndez Terán, Eloísa Carolina; García Vera, Stefany Elizabeth; Bassous, Nicole Joy; Soria, Oscar Yael Perez; Ávila Ramírez, Alan Eduardo; Flores Campos, Luis Mario; Azuela Rosas, Diego Arnoldo; Hassan, Shabir; Khorsandi, Danial; Jucaud, Vadim; Hussain, Mohammad Asif; Khateeb, Abdulhameed; Zhang, Yu Shrike; Lee, HeaYeon; Kim, Deok-Ho; Khademhosseini, Ali; Dokmeci, Mehmet Remzi; Shin, Su Ryon

    ACS sensors, 2024-May-24, Volume: 9, Issue: 5
    Journal Article

    Noninvasive monitoring of biofabricated tissues during the biomanufacturing process is needed to obtain reproducible, healthy, and functional tissues. Measuring the levels of biomarkers secreted from tissues is a promising strategy to understand the status of tissues during biofabrication. Continuous and real-time information from cultivated tissues enables users to achieve scalable manufacturing. Label-free biosensors are promising candidates for detecting cell secretomes since they can be noninvasive and do not require labor-intensive processes such as cell lysing. Moreover, most conventional monitoring techniques are single-use, conducted at the end of the fabrication process, and, challengingly, are not permissive to in-line and continual detection. To address these challenges, we developed a noninvasive and continual monitoring platform to evaluate the status of cells during the biofabrication process, with a particular focus on monitoring the transient processes that stem cells go through during in vitro differentiation over extended periods. We designed and evaluated a reusable electrochemical immunosensor with the capacity for detecting trace amounts of secreted osteogenic markers, such as osteopontin (OPN). The sensor has a low limit of detection (LOD), high sensitivity, and outstanding selectivity in complex biological media. We used this OPN immunosensor to continuously monitor on-chip osteogenesis of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) cultured 2D and 3D hydrogel constructs inside a microfluidic bioreactor for more than a month and were able to observe changing levels of OPN secretion during culture. The proposed platform can potentially be adopted for monitoring a variety of biological applications and further developed into a fully automated system for applications in advanced cellular biomanufacturing.