This document describes a 3D organ-specific culture technology called zPREDICTA that can be used to test the efficacy of anticancer agents. Some key points:
- zPREDICTA uses human organ-specific extracellular matrices and disease-specific factors to recreate the complex tissue microenvironment in 3D culture models.
- These 3D models, such as r-Bone and r-Lung, support long-term survival and proliferation of primary human cancer and normal cells better than standard 2D models.
- zPREDICTA's technology can be used to predict clinical outcomes of anticancer drugs, identify responders vs. non-responders, evaluate drug combinations and mechanisms of drug resistance, and