In an article published recently in Nature Medicine, the authors generate organoid models of liver neoplasia. In doing so, they highlight both the diversity of current organoid methodologies and their application to cancer modeling and therapeutics discovery.
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Smith, A., Kuo, C. Organoids lead the cancer attack. Nat Med 23, 1399–1400 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm.4454
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