NIST scientists discover how to switch liver cancer cell growth from 2-D to 3-D structures

(National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)) A discovery might help designers of miniature 'lab-on-a-chip' technologies to grow three-dimensional colonies of cancer cells inside a chip's tiny chambers, rather than the merely two-dimensional colonies that they generally can culture now. Chips with 3-D cell arrays could furnish more realistic biological environments for drug testing.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news