Inkjet-printed tumors: Custom cancer drug testbeds in less than a day

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —

Cancer researchers often require live tumors to test their new treatments. But harvesting live tumors is painful and dangerous, and creating new tumors in a lab can be time-consuming and difficult. Purdue University researchers have developed a novel solution: inkjet-printed tumors. The researchers print biomaterial in a unique two-dimensional pattern, and these specimens naturally fold in on themselves to become lifelike three-dimensional tumoroids, in a process called morphogenesis.

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