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20 May 2026
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Tumoroids – cancer cells grown in the lab as 3D assemblies – allow, for example, individuals' cancers to be studied and tested for response to treatments. However, such systems used in labs across the world vary in how they're cultivated (usually on a mouse cancer-derived matrix) and in their ease of scrutiny. Here, researchers have developed a standardised, high-throughput approach, creating tumoroids initiated in microengineered niches fabricated from polyethylene glycol-acrylate polymers that respond to mechanical forces of tumour growth
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- Video from work by Emna Ouni and colleagues
- Tumor Cell Dynamics Unit, Inserm U1279 Gustave Roussy Institute, Université Paris-Saclay, Villejuif, France
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivs (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
- Published in Cell Biomaterials, September 2025
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