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Micro organ system to test cancer drugs

by James Urquhart, RSC last modified 12-02-10 12:53 PM Copyright 2010, RSC
Micro organ system to test cancer drugs

The system uses a microintestine, microliver, and the target components (in this case, breast cancer cells) to test orally administered substances © Anal. Chem.

Japanese researchers have created an organ-on-a-chip system that simultaneously tests how liver, intestine and breast cancer cells respond to cancer drugs. The team says the microbioassay system could be a more efficient and cheaper alternative to conventional testing methods, and help reduce the number of animals required to test new drugs.  More...

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2010/December/02121001.asp

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