Watch | IIT Guwahati's alternative to testing cancer drugs

A video on IIT Guwahati's alternative method to test breast and liver cancer drugs using silk-protein-based tumour models.

February 24, 2021 04:58 pm | Updated 07:25 pm IST

Researchers from IIT Guwahati have a developed a new way to test cancer drugs. They have designed silk-protein–based tumour models. Silk proteins are extracted from two species of silk worms and blended. This is then used to build a scaffolding or frame over which 3D tumouroids from human cancer cells can be grown.

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