CRISPR-engineering of human liver organoids to study fibrolamellar carcinoma

Timeframe: 2023 – 2025 Goals: Model development and understanding the requirements for FLC tumor formation Principal Investigators: Benedetta Artegiani, PhD; and Delilah Hendriks, PhD Study overview: In comparison with more common cancers, research models of FLC have been extremely limited. Drs. Artegiani and Hendriks have addressed this problem by creating “synthetic” models of FLC, generating …

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CRISPR-engineering of human liver organoids to study fibrolamellar carcinoma

Timeframe: 2021 – 2022 Goal: Model development Principal Investigator: Benedetta Artegiani, PhD Study Overview: Research into FLC is complicated because of the limited experimental tools that can be used to study this rare cancer. While tests in laboratory animals such as mice are useful tools, they do not reflect the human disease due to inherent …

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