How can you use a tumor on a chip platform to study the effect of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) on lymphocytes and cancer cells? This is a recent paper from Sieviläinen et al. at the university of Helsinki that uses an organ on a chip, lymphocytes and head and...
An interesting paper from Kim and Rhee groups at Korea Basic Science Institute and Incheon National University co-culturing glioblastoma with microglial cells in a tumor on a chip. They investigated therapeutic effects of microRNAs on tumor progression in brain cancer. The authors loaded microRNA-124 into extracellular vesicles, as a potential therapeutic...
A recent paper from Jang et al. from Kuh’s lab at the Catholic University of Korea co-culturing pancreatic cancer cells with fibroblasts and macrophages to create a 3D tumor on a chip model. The paper evaluates the culture of the cancer cells with and without the stromal cells and...
