My colleagues and I are working on an updated format for the Human Tumor Assay Journal, which now contains an atlas of fresh human tumors in short term suspension culture (click on Fresh Human Tumor Cell Culture Atlas illustrating examples of (1) the appearance of the fresh tumors immediately following scissor mincing and digestion with collagenase/DNAse, (2) appearance of “control” (cultured without drugs) tumor cells, following 96 hours of suspension culture, in anchorage-independent conditions, (3) appearance of cells when cultured with an “effective”/”active” drug, and (4) appearance of cells when cultured with an “ineffective”/”inactive” drug.
The atlas is a work in progress, but it now has sufficient numbers of examples of different classes of tumors that I hope it will be useful to workers in this field.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
- Larry Weisenthal/Huntington Beach, CA mail@weisenthal.org