Monday, March 15, 2010

3-D cell culture: Making cells feel right at home

3-D cell culture: Making cells feel right at home: "(Rice University) Research in this week's Nature Nanotechnology takes aim at a biological icon: the two-dimensional petri dish. Scientists from Rice University and the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have found a simple way to suspend cells in magnetic fields so they grow into three-dimensional cell cultures. Compared with flat cell cultures, the 3-D cell cultures more closely resemble real tissues from the body and should provide more realistic targets for testing new drugs."
-Mr. Gorman

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