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Tumor-on-chip models of CAR-T cell therapy

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Two seminal studies report a bioengineering approach to modeling CAR-T cell therapy of solid human tumors.

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Fig. 1: Two tumor-on-chip approaches to modeling CAR-T cell therapy of solid tumors.

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