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Tailoring treatment for cancer patients
NUS team finds faster way to grow tumour clusters for drugs to be tested on them
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From left: PhD student Lim Su Bin from the NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering; Professor Lim Chwee Teck, principal investigator of the Mechanobiology Institute; and Dr Khoo Bee Luan, senior postdoctoral associate at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, in an NUS laboratory with their research projects.
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Samantha Boh
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Scientists here are a step closer to developing cancer treatments tailored for individual patients, which are more effective and less time-consuming.
Their dream is for such customised treatments to replace current ones that are delivered largely through trial and error.
