The RASTRUM™ platform is being applied to accelerate drug discovery and biomedical research.

Fundamental biology

The power to place cell and matrix components in precise 3D constructs opens up new possibilities in fundamental explorative biology. For probing specific cell-cell or cell-matrix interactions, working in low or medium throughput, RASTRUM™ enables experiments not previously possible.

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Create complex 3D cell models with multiple cell and/or matrix components
Probe specific cell-cell or cell-matrix interactions in a controlled and quantitative way
Open your experimental design to rapid testing of multiple variables in 3D

Drug discovery

The speed and reproducibility of 3D cell model creation using RASTRUM™ is a step-change for medium to high-throughput drug discovery and screening, enabling you to move confidently to implementing 3D models in your pre-clinical pipeline.

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Creation of 3D cell models an order of magnitude faster than manual methods
Unprecedented reproducibility well-to-well, day-to-day and site-to-site
Better quantitative 3D analysis due to controlled structure-readout correlation

Personalised screening

The potential to screen a range of drugs or combinations against an individual patient’s tumour cells in vitro, combined with genomic analysis, is bringing a paradigm shift in patient care.

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