Continuous culture

From a collaboration between cancer researchers at Georgetown University and Fudan University, this piece explains how a “conditional reprogramming” cell culture, which introduces a Rho kinase inhibitor, allows bladder cancer cells collected in a urine sample to grow indefinitely.  This is the first step in sorting out a tumor’s heterogeneity and determining the most effective drug for treating an individual’s cancer.  Thus, a urine test could be preferable to a liquid biopsy.   MORE

Image Credit:  Georgetown University and Fudan University