Nature Biotechnologies - A group of researchers from different countries has created an artificial colon model which allowed them to deeply study the process of tumor development and the genes responsible for it.

 

A recellularized human colon model identifies cancer driver genes

 

Authors: Huanhuan Joyce Chen, Zhubo Wei, Jian Sun, Asmita Bhattacharya, David J Savage, Rita Serda, Yuri Mackeyev, Steven A Curley, Pengcheng Bu, Lihua Wang, Shuibing Chen, Leona Cohen-Gould, Emina Huang, Xiling Shen, Steven M Lipkin, Neal G Copeland, Nancy A Jenkins, Michael L Shuler.

Nature Biotechnologies 34, 845–851 (2016) doi:10.1038/nbt.3586. Published online: 11 July 2016.