Recent advances and challenges in colorectal cancer: From molecular research to treatment

Figure 8 Schematic diagram of the establishment of artificial tissue cultures. Created with MedPeer (medpeer.cn). Copyright permission has been obtained in the Supplementary material. Tumor tissues from human intestines, stem cells from normal intestinal tissues and embryonic stem cells, as well as induced pluripotent stem cells, are embedded in the basement membrane matrix and maintained in the culture medium containing microenvironment factors crucial for proliferation.