Personalised cancer treatment a step closer with world's first 'living biobank'
by Ian Sample Science editor from on (#8K2X)
Tissue grown from biopsies shown to closely mimic patients' tumours, allowing researchers to study specific mutations and identify most promising drugs
Scientists have created the world's first "living biobank" of patients' tumours and used the tissue to identify the most promising drugs for each person's disease.
Tiny biopsies of the patients' tumours were grown into clumps of cells and kept alive in the lab, so researchers could study their specific mutations and subject the tumours to more than 80 anti-cancer drugs.
