[HTML][HTML] Engineering organoids

M Hofer, MP Lutolf - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids are in vitro miniaturized and simplified model systems of organs that have gained
enormous interest for modelling tissue development and disease, and for personalized …

Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

[HTML][HTML] Oncogenic collagen I homotrimers from cancer cells bind to α3β1 integrin and impact tumor microbiome and immunity to promote pancreatic cancer

Y Chen, S Yang, J Tavormina, D Tampe, M Zeisberg… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
In contrast to normal type I collagen (Col1) heterotrimer (α1/α2/α1) produced by fibroblasts,
pancreatic cancer cells specifically produce unique Col1 homotrimer (α1/α1/α1). Col1 …

CODA: quantitative 3D reconstruction of large tissues at cellular resolution

AL Kiemen, AM Braxton, MP Grahn, KS Han, JM Babu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A central challenge in biology is obtaining high-content, high-resolution information while
analyzing tissue samples at volumes relevant to disease progression. We address this here …

KRASG12D inhibition reprograms the microenvironment of early and advanced pancreatic cancer to promote FAS-mediated killing by CD8+ T cells

KK Mahadevan, KM McAndrews, VS LeBleu, S Yang… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Summary The KRAS G12D mutation is present in nearly half of pancreatic adenocarcinomas
(PDAC). We investigated the effects of inhibiting the KRAS G12D mutant protein with …

[HTML][HTML] The molecular biology of pancreatic adenocarcinoma: translational challenges and clinical perspectives

S Wang, Y Zheng, F Yang, L Zhu, XQ Zhu… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Pancreatic cancer is an increasingly common cause of cancer mortality with a tight
correspondence between disease mortality and incidence. Furthermore, it is usually …

[HTML][HTML] Human organoid models to study SARS-CoV-2 infection

Y Han, L Yang, LA Lacko, S Chen - Nature Methods, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is one of the deadliest pandemics in history. SARS …

[HTML][HTML] Overcoming cancer therapeutic bottleneck by drug repurposing

Z Zhang, L Zhou, N Xie, EC Nice, T Zhang… - Signal transduction and …, 2020 - nature.com
Ever present hurdles for the discovery of new drugs for cancer therapy have necessitated
the development of the alternative strategy of drug repurposing, the development of old …

[HTML][HTML] Human disease models in drug development

A Loewa, JJ Feng, S Hedtrich - Nature reviews bioengineering, 2023 - nature.com
Biomedical research is undergoing a paradigm shift towards approaches centred on human
disease models owing to the notoriously high failure rates of the current drug development …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor organoids: Opportunities and challenges to guide precision medicine

V Veninga, EE Voest - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Tumor organoids have been proposed as a model system for precision medicine. The ability
of tumor organoids to retain characteristics of the original tumor makes them unique for …