UT Arlington research uses artificial lymph nodes to attract prostate cancer cells

Cancer decoysA UT Arlington bioengineering professor is using tissue-engineered artificial lymph nodes to attract prostate cancer cells to better target and eradicate the disease. Liping Tang, bioengineering professor and interim chair of the Bioengineering Department, has received a $533,650 U.S. Army grant to build the lymph nodes that attract the cancer cells. “The tissue-engineered lymph nodes can be made to resemble what the cancer will look like after it spreads to other sites,” Tang said. “When prostate cancer metastasizes, that’s when it becomes dangerous and deadly. This