Lab-made miniorgans take scientists a step closer to curing cancer #Adenocarcinoma #CarcinoidTumors #ColonCancerAwareness [Video]

Lab-made miniorgans take scientists a step closer to curing cancer [Video]

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Using light, scientists made a breakthrough for colon cancer by assimilating tumor development in vivo in a laboratory. Researchers need better biological models with which to study the development, progression, and treatment of cancers. Current models just aren’t good enough. Even the more advanced methods such as growing organs in a lab known as organoids aren’t generated with human cells.

However, in a feat of microfabrication and tissue engineering, scientists just developed miniature colons and gave them cancer. They replicated tumorigenesis—the formation of cancer—in targeted areas.

They turned on oncogenes or mutated genes that can cause cancer using a cutting-edge technique known as optogenetics, which manipulates cells and molecules using light, which turns out to have far-reaching applications.

“In essence, we used light …

Tags Adenocarcinoma, Carcinoid Tumors, Colon Cancer Awareness