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Re:Ixchel (YC S15) Predicts How Cancer Drugs Will Behave in ... by jkirshner on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @05:12PM (#9932326)
Yes, absolutely. Our platform provides physiologically relevant 3D environment that recapitulates the native conditions seen in human tissues. Moreover, unlike the models with immortalized cells lines, which for many cancers are not representative of the disease, our platform sustains primary cells from patients. Our studies demonstrate that our platform has high correlation with clinical response (i.e. how cells respond to drugs in our system matches how the patient responds).

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