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Organoids lead the cancer attack

Nature Medicine volume 23, pages 1399–1400 (2017)Cite this article

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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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Figure 1: Organoid models of liver cancer.

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    Amber R Smith & Calvin J Kuo

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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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