CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

Human organoids in basic research and clinical applications

XY Tang, S Wu, D Wang, C Chu, Y Hong… - Signal transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Organoids are three-dimensional (3D) miniature structures cultured in vitro produced from
either human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) or adult stem cells (AdSCs) derived from …

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 …

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 …

Human organoids: model systems for human biology and medicine

J Kim, BK Koo, JA Knoblich - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2020 - nature.com
The historical reliance of biological research on the use of animal models has sometimes
made it challenging to address questions that are specific to the understanding of human …

Genetic and biological hallmarks of colorectal cancer

J Li, X Ma, D Chakravarti, S Shalapour… - Genes & …, 2021 - genesdev.cshlp.org
Colorectal cancer has served as a genetic and biological paradigm for the evolution of solid
tumors, and these insights have illuminated early detection, risk stratification, prevention …

Establishment of patient-derived cancer organoids for drug-screening applications

E Driehuis, K Kretzschmar, H Clevers - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Adult stem cell–based organoid technology is a versatile tool for the generation and long-
term maintenance of near-native 3D epithelial tissues in vitro. The generation of cancer …

Metastatic recurrence in colorectal cancer arises from residual EMP1+ cells

A Cañellas-Socias, C Cortina, X Hernando-Momblona… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Around 30–40% of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) undergoing curative
resection of the primary tumour will develop metastases in the subsequent years. Therapies …

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 …

Mutations and mechanisms of WNT pathway tumour suppressors in cancer

JM Bugter, N Fenderico, MM Maurice - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Mutation-induced activation of WNT–β-catenin signalling is a frequent driver event in human
cancer. Sustained WNT–β-catenin pathway activation endows cancer cells with sustained …