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Scholar aims to reverse-engineer cancer with 3D tool

Medical Xpress - medical research advances and health news
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Dr. Chen Cao uses a 3D bioprinter to print masses made of living cells.

Cao places them in conditions that replicate the "ecosystems" that surround tumors in the body.

By monitoring these model tumor microenvironments, the bioengineer aims to discover why some cancer cells metastasize.

Cao is one of three CPRIT Scholars currently at UTD .

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