A novel method to understand tumor cell invasion: integrating extracellular matrix mimicking layers in microfluidic chips by "selective curing".

"The authors would like to thank prof. Carlijn Bouten from the department of biomedical engineering at TU/e for the use of the knowledge and equipment in the cell and tissue lab at TU/e. Furthermore, special thanks go to Dr. Dana Mustafa for providing the cells. We would like to thank Andrea di Luca and Paul Miggiels for the electrospinning protocols, and Dr. Moniek de Liefde-van Beest and ing. Willie ter Elst for their support in the lab. We thank Jelle Sleeboom, Yolande Ramos, and Nicholas Kurniawan for helpful suggestions. We would also like to give our special thanks to Alex Bastiaens and Dr. Floor Wolbers for their guidance. This research is embedded in the Organ on Chip Consortium hDMT, and it is partially funded by the Technology Foundation STW."