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Predicting a tumour’s drug uptake

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Computational modelling, informed by data from 3D volumetric imaging of transparent and intact whole-tumour samples, predicts blood flow and the spatial distribution of drug uptake in tumours.

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Fig. 1: A pipeline for predicting drug uptake by tumour tissue.

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Louhivuori, L., Kanatani, S. & Uhlén, P. Predicting a tumour’s drug uptake. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 717–718 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0311-1

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