Credit: Purdue University
Purdue researcher Luis Solorio has helped create a lifelike cancer environment out of polymer to better predict how drugs might stop its course.
Previous research has shown that most cancer deaths happen because of how it spreads, or metastasizes, in the body. A major hurdle for treating cancer is not being able to experiment with metastasis itself and knock out what it needs to spread.
Studies in the past have used a 3D printer to recreate a controlled cancer environment, but these replicas are still not realistic enough for drug screening.
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