Issue 02 | July 2024
Forging New Frontiers
Biomedical Engineering
Keeping cancer cells content
A jelly-like hydrogel platform keeps tumours alive for ten days, enabling an effective testing ground for various anticancer drugs and treatments.
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ike our fingerprints, no two cancers are alike. Each individual cancer — even those of the same type — carries a myriad of genetic nuances, and may therefore behave differently and respond to treatments in distinct ways.
Image above was created with the assistance of DALL·E 2