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Capturing the Brain Tumor Microenvironment with Tissue Engineering
Capturing the Brain Tumor Microenvironment with Tissue Engineering
Researchers built a 3D glioblastoma model to study therapeutic resistance and improve drug screening systems.
Researchers built a 3D glioblastoma model to study therapeutic resistance and improve drug screening systems.
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Finding CAR T Cells in Solid Tumors at Single-Cell Resolution
The Scientist Creative Services Team in collaboration with Miltenyi Biotec | Nov 12, 2021 | 1 min read
Rita Pfeifer will discuss visualizing and quantifying CAR T-cell infiltration into solid tumors with 3-D light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM).
Opinion: Develop Organoids, Not Chimeras, for Transplantation
John D. Loike and Robert Pollack | Aug 23, 2019 | 4 min read
Scientists are devising human-animal hybrids for harvesting human organs, but lab-derived mini-organs are a less ethically fraught solution to meeting the need for transplantation.
Image of the Day: Bad Behavior
Kerry Grens | Dec 12, 2018 | 1 min read
A deep learning program can identify cells with higher metastatic potential based on the way they look and move.
Pig Hearts Provide Long-Term Cardiac Function in Baboons
Ruth Williams | Dec 5, 2018 | 3 min read
Primates receiving heart transplants from genetically engineered pigs have survived more than six months, a new study reveals.
Image of the Day: Fish Avatars for Cancer
The Scientist Staff | Sep 11, 2017 | 1 min read
Zebrafish larvae transplanted with patients’ tumors respond as their human donors do to chemotherapy.
Xenotransplant Record
Tanya Lewis | Apr 6, 2016 | 2 min read
A donor heart from a genetically modified pig survives for more than 2.5 years inside a baboon’s abdomen.
The Human Touch
Kate Yandell | Aug 1, 2015 | 10 min read
Can mice with humanlike tissues better model drug effects in people?
To Each His Own
Mary Beth Aberlin | Apr 1, 2015 | 3 min read
Cancer treatment becomes more and more personal.