The inflammatory pathogenesis of colorectal cancer

M Schmitt, FR Greten - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The mutational landscape of colorectal cancer (CRC) does not enable predictions to be
made about the survival of patients or their response to therapy. Instead, studying the …

WNT as a driver and dependency in cancer

MJ Parsons, T Tammela, LE Dow - Cancer discovery, 2021 - aacrjournals.org
The WNT signaling pathway is a critical regulator of development and adult tissue
homeostasis and becomes dysregulated in many cancer types. Although hyperactivation of …

Mechanisms of metastatic colorectal cancer

A Cañellas-Socias, E Sancho, E Batlle - … Reviews Gastroenterology & …, 2024 - nature.com
Despite extensive research and improvements in understanding colorectal cancer (CRC), its
metastatic form continues to pose a substantial challenge, primarily owing to limited …

Organoids in cancer research

J Drost, H Clevers - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
The recent advances in in vitro 3D culture technologies, such as organoids, have opened
new avenues for the development of novel, more physiological human cancer models. Such …

An in vivo model of functional and vascularized human brain organoids

AAF Mansour, JT Gonçalves, CW Bloyd, H Li… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells to small brain-like structures known as brain
organoids offers an unprecedented opportunity to model human brain development and …

TGFβ drives immune evasion in genetically reconstituted colon cancer metastasis

DVF Tauriello, S Palomo-Ponce, D Stork… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Most patients with colorectal cancer die as a result of the disease spreading to other organs.
However, no prevalent mutations have been associated with metastatic colorectal cancers …

A rectal cancer organoid platform to study individual responses to chemoradiation

K Ganesh, C Wu, KP O'Rourke, BC Szeglin, Y Zheng… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Rectal cancer (RC) is a challenging disease to treat that requires chemotherapy, radiation
and surgery to optimize outcomes for individual patients. No accurate model of RC exists to …

Epithelial NOTCH signaling rewires the tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer to drive poor-prognosis subtypes and metastasis

R Jackstadt, SR van Hooff, JD Leach, X Cortes-Lavaud… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
The metastatic process of colorectal cancer (CRC) is not fully understood and effective
therapies are lacking. We show that activation of NOTCH1 signaling in the murine intestinal …

Mex3a marks drug-tolerant persister colorectal cancer cells that mediate relapse after chemotherapy

A Álvarez-Varela, L Novellasdemunt, FM Barriga… - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) patient-derived organoids predict responses to chemotherapy.
Here we used them to investigate relapse after treatment. Patient-derived organoids expand …

Mutational drivers of cancer cell migration and invasion

NM Novikov, SY Zolotaryova, AM Gautreau… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Genomic instability and mutations underlie the hallmarks of cancer—genetic alterations
determine cancer cell fate by affecting cell proliferation, apoptosis and immune response …