Tumor ‘organoids’ may speed cancer treatment
A new method can quickly test hundreds of drugs on mini tumors grown from patients’ own cells
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TUMOR IN A DISH By growing patients’ cancer cells into mini tumors (many of the round dots seen at the edge of this image) in the lab, researchers are developing methods to quickly identify potential drugs for rare, hard-to-treat cancers.
Alice Soragni