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 …

Independent drug action in combination therapy: implications for precision oncology

D Plana, AC Palmer, PK Sorger - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Combination therapies are superior to monotherapy for many cancers. This advantage was
historically ascribed to the ability of combinations to address tumor heterogeneity, but …

Multi-omics analysis identifies therapeutic vulnerabilities in triple-negative breast cancer subtypes

BD Lehmann, A Colaprico, TC Silva, J Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a collection of biologically diverse cancers
characterized by distinct transcriptional patterns, biology, and immune composition. TNBCs …

Insights into molecular classifications of triple-negative breast cancer: improving patient selection for treatment

AC Garrido-Castro, NU Lin, K Polyak - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains the most challenging breast cancer subtype
to treat. To date, therapies directed to specific molecular targets have rarely achieved …

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 …

A living biobank of breast cancer organoids captures disease heterogeneity

N Sachs, J De Ligt, O Kopper, E Gogola, G Bounova… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Breast cancer (BC) comprises multiple distinct subtypes that differ genetically,
pathologically, and clinically. Here, we describe a robust protocol for long-term culturing of …

[HTML][HTML] Patient-derived micro-organospheres enable clinical precision oncology

S Ding, C Hsu, Z Wang, NR Natesh, R Millen… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) and patient-derived organoids (PDOs) have been shown
to model clinical response to cancer therapy. However, it remains challenging to use these …

Patient-derived xenografts undergo mouse-specific tumor evolution

U Ben-David, G Ha, YY Tseng, NF Greenwald, C Oh… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Patient-derived xenografts (PDXs) have become a prominent cancer model system, as they
are presumed to faithfully represent the genomic features of primary tumors. Here we …

PARP inhibitor resistance: a tug-of-war in BRCA-mutated cells

SM Noordermeer, H van Attikum - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
Poly-(ADP)-ribose polymerase (PARP) inhibition is synthetic lethal with deficiency for
homologous recombination (HR), a pathway essential for DNA double-strand break repair …

Synthetic lethality and cancer

NJ O'Neil, ML Bailey, P Hieter - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
A synthetic lethal interaction occurs between two genes when the perturbation of either gene
alone is viable but the perturbation of both genes simultaneously results in the loss of …