{"id":174590,"date":"2023-10-22T18:24:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T23:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-3d-printed-tumor-model-enables-faster-less-expensive-and-less-painful-cancer-treatment"},"modified":"2023-10-22T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T23:24:03","slug":"new-3d-printed-tumor-model-enables-faster-less-expensive-and-less-painful-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/new-3d-printed-tumor-model-enables-faster-less-expensive-and-less-painful-cancer-treatment","title":{"rendered":"New 3D-printed tumor model enables faster, less expensive and less painful cancer treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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An international team of interdisciplinary researchers has successfully created a method for better 3D modeling of complex cancers. The University of Waterloo-based team combined cutting-edge bioprinting techniques with synthetic structures or microfluidic chips. The method will help lab researchers more accurately understand heterogeneous tumors: tumors with more than one kind of cancer cell, often dispersed in unpredictable patterns.<\/p>\n

The research<\/a>, \u201cControlled tumor heterogeneity in a co-culture system by 3D bio-printed tumor-on-chip model,\u201d appears in Scientific Reports.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, medical practitioners<\/a> would biopsy a patient\u2019s tumor, extract cells, and then grow them in flat petri dishes in a lab. \u201cFor 50 years, this was how biologists understood tumors,\u201d said Nafiseh Moghimi, an applied mathematics<\/a> post-doctoral researcher and the lead author of the study. \u201cBut a decade ago, repeated treatment failures in human trials<\/a> made scientists realize that a 2D model does not capture the real tumor structure inside the body.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An international team of interdisciplinary researchers has successfully created a method for better 3D modeling of complex cancers. The University of Waterloo-based team combined cutting-edge bioprinting techniques with synthetic structures or microfluidic chips. The method will help lab researchers more accurately understand heterogeneous tumors: tumors with more than one kind of cancer cell, often dispersed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1503,11,1523,2229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioprinting","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-mathematics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}