Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Organoid cultures from normal and cancer-prone human breast tissues preserve complex epithelial lineages

  • Jennifer M. Rosenbluth,
  • Ron C. J. Schackmann,
  • G. Kenneth Gray,
  • Laura M. Selfors,
  • Carman Man-Chung Li,
  • Mackenzie Boedicker,
  • Hendrik J. Kuiken,
  • Andrea Richardson,
  • Jane Brock,
  • Judy Garber,
  • Deborah Dillon,
  • Norman Sachs,
  • Hans Clevers,
  • Joan S. Brugge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15548-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Organoid technology has enabled the generation of several breast cancer organoids. Here, the authors combine propagation of normal human mammary tissues with mass cytometry to evaluate the ability of organoid culture technologies to preserve stem cells and differentiated cell types.