Bioengineers are trying to grow human organs, so could growing human tumours help us to understand the microenvironment in which they spread – and how the immune system might be persuaded to attack them?

Frances Balkwill explains in this new Ideaslab video for the World Economic Forum how our research at Queen Mary University of London, funded by the European Research Council, is shedding new light on ovarian cancer and other forms of cancer.

Updated by: Martin Knight