While this widely used method is powerful enough to kill rapidly growing cancer cells, it also can harm healthy ones. (sciencedaily.com)
In order to find out how and why ovarian cancer cells grow and take on such lethal characteristics, Dr. Shepherd and his team grow the cancer cells in 3D structures, called «spheroids» — the same way the cancer cells grow in patients. (sciencedaily.com)
Instead of growing cancer cells on plastic, they inserted a multi-layered omental tissue culture model into each well of a 384 - well or 1536 - well HTS platform. (uchospitals.edu)