A team of researchers from the U.S. and China has used 3-D printing to create a realistic model of a cancerous tumor.
The model could aid in preclinical research by providing a way for drug developers to test new compounds. The model, which consists of a grid-shaped scaffold of fibrous proteins coated in HeLa cells--an immortal line of cervical cancer cells originally derived from a patient in 1951--could also help scientists better understand how tumors develop, grow and spread throughout the body.
Image: 3-D tumor model designed from gelatin, alginate and fibrin to imitate the fibrous proteins that make up the outside of a tumor.--Courtesy of the Institute of Physics
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