Measuring transport of soluble molecules such as nutrients, waste, and therapeutics within tissues is essential to understand the impact of culture dimensionality on tissue function, and to realize improved 3D cell culture discovery platforms. Studying these properties on conventional 3D cell cultures poses great challenges as the delivering or sampling access within these complex 3D tissue structures is either challenging to precisely position within the desired region or simply destructive. In this thesis, we demonstrate proof-of-concept for a simple technique to both deliver and sample soluble factors from a point source within spheroids, using a highly perfusable hollow-core hydrogel microtube and an integrated glass capillary sheathing system, that successfully limits transport to a well-defined region inside the tissue. We successfully demonstrated its applicability by analyzing the transport properties of a model placental trophoblast choriocarcinoma, cultured as a 3D spheroid. Through comparison with finite element modeling of soluble diffusion in our platform, we found that the diffusivity within placental spheroid is heterogeneous as it shows higher diffusivity towards its core and gradually decreases the edge. This platform provides a simple design that could be used to rapidly study diffusion of soluble within a 3D tissue