Existing cell culture models were not very realistic, Tuveson says, and creating genetically engineered mice took up to a year, compared with up to 3 weeks for pancreatic cancer organoids.
Not exact matches
However, this coupling does not
exist in
cell culture models with exogenously expressed c - MYC — the type of systems that are mainly used to investigate glutamine addiction in cancer.
Learn the basics about how to incorporate this
model system into your research, including how it compares to
existing 3 - D
cell culture and organoid
models.
Current work focuses on identifying novel Eph receptor - targeting agents (such as peptides and small molecules) as well as improving the
existing ones in collaboration with medicinal chemists and structural biologists, and evaluating them in
cell culture and in vivo animal
models.
Taken together our data support a
model in which ES
cell culture has trapped a set of interconvertible
cell states reminiscent of the early stages in blastocyst differentiation that may
exist only transiently in the early embryo.