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Robots improve drug tests for catching lurking cancer cells
Key takeaways
- Such “persister” cells are rare – as few as one in a thousand tumor cells — and difficult to identify, but they can seed cancer recurrences.
- Working with lung cancer samples, the researchers identified nearly 10,000 cellular variations that could help a cancer cell “escape” the effects of treatment.
- They wanted to test varying dosages of drugs that had already been flagged as potential treatments for persistent lung cancer cells, but the tests would have required 10,000 week-long experiments.
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Such “persister” cells are rare – as few as one in a thousand tumor cells — and difficult to identify, but they can seed cancer recurrences.
Working with lung cancer samples, the researchers identified nearly 10,000 cellular variations that could help a cancer cell “escape” the effects of treatment.
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