Cancer to be ‘birthed’ in lab to learn prevention instead of cure
Cancer will be grown in a lab by scientists trying to find ways to stop the disease before it develops.A new transatlantic research alliance of scientists from the UK and US, working on a five-year, £55m budget, will "birth" a tumour in lab-grown human tissue. The International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED), made up of experts from Cancer Research UK and five top universities, hopes to promote "rapid, cost-effective" early intervention over the "expensive firefighting of late-stage disease". Scientists are already investigating how to take cells out of someone at high risk of developing cancer and reproduce them using a 3D printer to test under what conditions they are most likely to turn cancerous.They also hope to develop screening tests that will detect multiple cancers...
