Organoid and spheroid tumor models: techniques and applications

S Gunti, ATK Hoke, KP Vu, NR London Jr - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cell cultures can be carried out in three dimensions (3D). Organoids and
spheroids are different 3D cell culture models that can be cultured with different techniques …

Cancer modeling meets human organoid technology

D Tuveson, H Clevers - Science, 2019 - science.org
Organoids are microscopic self-organizing, three-dimensional structures that are grown from
stem cells in vitro. They recapitulate many structural and functional aspects of their in vivo …

An organoid platform for ovarian cancer captures intra-and interpatient heterogeneity

O Kopper, CJ De Witte, K Lõhmussaar… - Nature medicine, 2019 - nature.com
Ovarian cancer (OC) is a heterogeneous disease usually diagnosed at a late stage.
Experimental in vitro models that faithfully capture the hallmarks and tumor heterogeneity of …

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

A Alvarez-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 …

Tales from the crypt: new insights into intestinal stem cells

H Gehart, H Clevers - Nature reviews Gastroenterology & hepatology, 2019 - nature.com
The intestinal epithelium withstands continuous mechanical, chemical and biological insults
despite its single-layered, simple epithelial structure. The crypt–villus tissue architecture in …

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 …

Human organoids: tools for understanding biology and treating diseases

F Schutgens, H Clevers - Annual Review of Pathology …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Organoids are in vitro–cultured three-dimensional structures that recapitulate key aspects of
in vivo organs. They can be established from pluripotent stem cells and from adult stem …

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 …

Cancer stem cells revisited

E Batlle, H Clevers - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
The cancer stem cell (CSC) concept was proposed four decades ago, and states that tumor
growth, analogous to the renewal of healthy tissues, is fueled by small numbers of dedicated …

[HTML][HTML] The CD155/TIGIT axis promotes and maintains immune evasion in neoantigen-expressing pancreatic cancer

WA Freed-Pastor, LJ Lambert, ZA Ely, NB Pattada… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The CD155/TIGIT axis can be co-opted during immune evasion in chronic viral infections
and cancer. Pancreatic adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal malignancy, and immune …