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Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in males in the UK, and it accounts for 14% of all cancer deaths in males (2017 – 2019). While treatment for prostate cancer has improved over time, and 10-year survival has more than tripled in the last 50 years in the UK, prostate cancer remains one of…

The solution to the first problem arrived in the early 2010s, when researchers in the Netherlands developed a completely new way to study living systems: organoids.   “Organoids are microscopic, three-dimensional models for studying how cells self-organise into tissues,” says Chris. They’re created from specialised cells called stem cells. When these cells divide, one of the…