Found a way to abandon animal drug testing in cancer research

In the field of cancer research, there have been more and more hypotheses that scientists will be able to

disrupt the growth cells by changing the environment in which they are located.The main way this theory is tested is through animal experiments.

University of Michigan Scientiststhey want to replace animal cells with electro-polished synthetic cell frames in which such studies could be carried out. For this, scientists have created extracellular matrices in which ordinary cells that are outside a living organism can grow.

These structures have already been used to studythe reasons for the appearance of cancer cell metastases, as well as for the development of systems for analyzing changes in signaling pathways that begin to behave differently next to precancerous and already malignant cells.

Earlier, HiTech described in detail why scientists still have to conduct experiments on animals and what can be done with this in the future.