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Complex High-Content Phenotypic Screening
There has been a renewed interest in cell-based phenotypic screening in drug discovery with the goal of improving the success and decreasing the clinical failure rate of new therapeutics. This has increasingly led to the development of biomimetic cellular models that more faithfully replicate human disease biology. Human tumour models have advanced to include relevant cell types such as primary patient tumour cells and grown using organotypic and 3D methods. Tissue organoids, which are 3D organ buds displaying realistic microanatomy, are becoming more commonly used in drug discovery to advance in vitro assays which predict drug toxicity and pharmacokinetics. Emerging technologies and cell culture methods are constantly improving the quality of tissue modelling that can be employed during primary phenotypic screening, and this has resulted in the identification of more efficacious and patient-relevant therapeutics.
Part of the book: Special Topics in Drug Discovery