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CELL CULTURE

Organ-specific metastases

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A tissue-decellularization method enables the culture of organ-specific metastases on a dish.

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Fig. 1: Biomatrix scaffolds increase the invasive capacities of colon cancer cells.

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  1. Oncology Program, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Spain

    Jelena Urosevic & Roger R. Gomis

  2. CIBERONC, Barcelona, Spain

    Jelena Urosevic & Roger R. Gomis

  3. Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Roger R. Gomis

  4. ICREA, Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats, Barcelona, Spain

    Roger R. Gomis

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