Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Biomimetic hydrogel supports initiation and growth of patient-derived breast tumor organoids

  • Elisabeth Prince,
  • Jennifer Cruickshank,
  • Wail Ba-Alawi,
  • Kelsey Hodgson,
  • Jillian Haight,
  • Chantal Tobin,
  • Andrew Wakeman,
  • Alona Avoulov,
  • Valentina Topolskaia,
  • Mitchell J. Elliott,
  • Alison P. McGuigan,
  • Hal K. Berman,
  • Benjamin Haibe-Kains,
  • David W. Cescon,
  • Eugenia Kumacheva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28788-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Patient-derived tumour organoids are important preclinical models but suffer from variability from the use of basement-membrane extract and cell contamination. Here, the authors report on the development of mimetic nanofibrilar hydrogel which supports tumour organoid growth with reduced batch variability and cell contamination.