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Microfluidic Co-Culture Models for Dissecting the Immune Response in in vitro Tumor Microenvironments
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The local microenvironment matters in preclinical basic and translational studies of cancer immunology and
William W Ho1, Mikael J Pittet2, Dai Fukumura3
1Edwin L. Steele Laboratories, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA; Singapore Immunology Network, Agency for Science Technology and Research (A(∗)STAR), Singapore 138648, Singapore; Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Cancer Cell
|June 17, 2022
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