Development of biomimetic 3D cancer platform for drug testing

• Main Author: Ker, Sia Fong
• Other Authors: Tan Lay Poh
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62467
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cancer accounts for most of the deaths in the world and it is mainly due to metastasis that makes treatment of cancer difficult. Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition plays an important role in tumour metastasis as well as in tumour recurrence, the conversion of epithelial cells to mesenchymal cells...