Research

Tumor Micro-environments

A custom benchtop system from Engineering Arts is used to print rows of custom designed self-assembling peptides (sa-peptides) to create distinct tumor microenvironments with precise spatial resolution and specific chemical compositions that recreate key tumor cell-wound extra-cellular-matrix (ECM) signaling interactions. SiHa cells patterned on alternating rows, spaced 500 µm apart, of inkjet printed saPeptide ECMs imaged after 48 hours. Courtesy of the Center for Applied NanoBioscience, Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University. For more info contact:wiktor@EngineeringArts.com