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THE FUTURE OF DRUG DISCOVERY: LIVE 3D CELL ANALYSIS

The researchers used a technique called confocal microscopy to confirm that the cell lines were forming spheres.

Cancer Screen with Spheroids
Shows Promise Therapeutically

S

cientists from The Scripps Research

identified one potential drug for a cancer

Institute say they have developed a new

gene and reported its results ("A Novel Three-

method to screen for potential cancer

Dimensional High-Throughput Screening

drugs. The technique makes use of tiny, three-

Approach Identifies Inducers of a Mutant KRAS

dimensional, ball-like aggregates of cells called

Selective Lethal Phenotype") in Oncogene.

spheroids, which can be used to interrogate

"The RAS proteins are the most frequently

hundreds or even thousands of compounds

mutated oncogenes in cancer, with the highest

rapidly using high-throughput screening (HTS).

frequency found in pancreatic, lung, and colon

Using this approach, the team has already

tumors. Moreover, the activity of RAS is required

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