Endocrine Abstracts

Organoids are tiny, self-organized three-dimensional versions of an organ that are produced in vitro. Human organoids offer unique opportunities to model the development, physiology, and diseases of human tissues while complementing animal models and reducing the need for animal testing. In the thyroid field, there is a lack of a functional human in vitro thyroid model which allows to further explore various aspects related to thyroid development and disease....

Introduction: Due to their remarkable self-organizing structures and functional properties, organoid has become a powerful tool to model diseases ‘in a dish’. The use of organoids in cancer research emerged to better understand tumor behavior. Originally, adult stem cells (aSC)-derived organoids were derived from primary tumors while recent studies have reported the generation of cancer models arising from healthy cells by controlling oncogene expression. SC-derived ...