Cancer researchers cannot study a cancer they have no laboratory model of, and for many tumor types the available models have been decades old, few in number, or unrepresentative of the patients who actually get the disease.
The National Cancer Institute has now published results from a ten-year effort that roughly doubles the public supply. The Human Cancer Models Initiative released 665 next-generation laboratory models representing 25 types of cancer, derived from 2,780 donors. The compendium describing them was published in Nature.
