Cancer organoids 2.0: modelling the complexity of the tumour immune microenvironment

R Polak, ET Zhang, CJ Kuo - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
The development of neoplasia involves a complex and continuous interplay between
malignantly transformed cells and the tumour microenvironment (TME). Cancer …

Patient-derived xenograft models in cancer therapy: technologies and applications

Y Liu, W Wu, C Cai, H Zhang, H Shen… - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models, in which tumor tissues from patients are implanted
into immunocompromised or humanized mice, have shown superiority in recapitulating the …

Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models, applications and challenges in cancer research

S Abdolahi, Z Ghazvinian, S Muhammadnejad… - Journal of Translational …, 2022 - Springer
The establishing of the first cancer models created a new perspective on the identification
and evaluation of new anti-cancer therapies in preclinical studies. Patient-derived xenograft …

Application of the CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing technique in basic research, diagnosis, and therapy of cancer

H Zhang, C Qin, C An, X Zheng, S Wen, W Chen, X Liu… - Molecular cancer, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier and
Jennifer Doudna for the development of the Clustered regularly interspaced short …

Radiotherapy as a tool to elicit clinically actionable signalling pathways in cancer

G Petroni, LC Cantley, L Santambrogio… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
A variety of targeted anticancer agents have been successfully introduced into clinical
practice, largely reflecting their ability to inhibit specific molecular alterations that are …

A human breast cancer-derived xenograft and organoid platform for drug discovery and precision oncology

KP Guillen, M Fujita, AJ Butterfield, SD Scherer… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Models that recapitulate the complexity of human tumors are urgently needed to
develop more effective cancer therapies. We report a bank of human patient-derived …

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 …

The gut–liver axis and the intersection with the microbiome

A Tripathi, J Debelius, DA Brenner, M Karin… - Nature reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
In the past decade, an exciting realization has been that diverse liver diseases—ranging
from nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, alcoholic steatohepatitis and cirrhosis to hepatocellular …

Patient-derived organoids model treatment response of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers

G Vlachogiannis, S Hedayat, A Vatsiou, Y Jamin… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Patient-derived organoids (PDOs) have recently emerged as robust preclinical models;
however, their potential to predict clinical outcomes in patients has remained unclear. We …

A bioprinted human-glioblastoma-on-a-chip for the identification of patient-specific responses to chemoradiotherapy

HG Yi, YH Jeong, Y Kim, YJ Choi, HE Moon… - Nature biomedical …, 2019 - nature.com
Patient-specific ex vivo models of human tumours that recapitulate the pathological
characteristics and complex ecology of native tumours could help determine the most …