Single cell profiling of female breast fibroadenoma reveals distinct epithelial cell compositions and therapeutic targets

Advancements in Organoid Culture Technologies: Current Trends and Innovations

Organoids have emerged as valuable tools in investigating disease mechanisms, drug efficacy, and personalized medicine due to their capacity to recapitulate crucial aspects of tissue physiology, including cell-cell interactions, heterogeneity, microenvironmental cues, and drug responses. Despite their broad applicability across various research domains, conventional organoid culture methods are plagued by several limitations that hinder research progress. These limitations include the inability to faithfully recreate tissue microenvironments, immune contexts, and vascular systems. Fortunately, ongoing advancements in organoid culture techniques are addressing these shortcomings. In this review, we provide a comprehensive overview of current mainstream organoid culture protocols. By evaluating these protocols, researchers can identify the most suitable experimental methods, thereby optimizing resource allocation and experimental outcomes.

The Fundamental Role of Oxime and Oxime Ether Moieties in Improving the Physicochemical and Anticancer Properties of Structurally Diverse Scaffolds

The present review explores the critical role of oxime and oxime ether moieties in enhancing the physicochemical and anticancer properties of structurally diverse molecular frameworks. Specific examples are carefully selected to illustrate the distinct contributions of these functional groups to general strategies for molecular design, modulation of biological activities, computational modeling, and structure-activity relationship studies. An extensive literature search was conducted across three databases, including PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scifinder, enabling us to create one of the most comprehensive overviews of how oximes and oxime ethers impact antitumor activities within a wide range of structural frameworks. This search focused on various combinations of keywords or their synonyms, related to the anticancer activity of oximes and oxime ethers, structure-activity relationships, mechanism of action, as well as molecular dynamics and docking studies. Each article was evaluated based on its scientific merit and the depth of the study, resulting in 268 cited references and more than 336 illustrative chemical structures carefully selected to support this analysis. As many previous reviews focus on one subclass of this extensive family of compounds, this report represents one of the rare and fully comprehensive assessments of the anticancer potential of this group of molecules across diverse molecular scaffolds.