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Patient-specific 3D-printed glioblastomas

A bioprinted glioblastoma-on-a-chip model enables the evaluation of treatment responses for individual patients whose brain tumours resist standard chemoradiotherapy.

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Fig. 1: A bioprinted glioblastoma-on-a-chip.

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Gomez-Roman, N., Chalmers, A.J. Patient-specific 3D-printed glioblastomas. Nat Biomed Eng 3, 498–499 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-019-0379-2

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