Cancer Screen with Spheroids Shows Promise Therapeutically

Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute say they have developed a new method to screen for potential cancer drugs. The technique makes use of tiny, three-dimensional, ball-like aggregates of cells called spheroids, which can be used to interrogate hundreds or even thousands of compounds rapidly using high-throughput screening (HTS).Using this approach, the team has already identified one potential drug for a cancer gene and reported its results (“ A Novel Three-Dimensional High-Thro