The disclosure generally provides compositions and methods that are useful in the treatment of cancer. More specifically, the methods and compositions may be used to detect, quantify, inhibit, kill, differentiate, or eliminate cancer stem cells (CSCs) and may be used in the treatment of cancers associated with CSCs, and particularly cancers and CSCs that express LOX1.

The present invention relates to a method or kit for producing cancer stem cell spheroids, and a method of screening of drugs for treating cancer cell resistance using the prepared cancer stem cell spheroid, and it can conveniently produce cancer stem cell spheroids, and the prepared cancer stem cell spheroids can be effectively utilized for screening drugs for treating cancer cell resistance.

The present disclosure provides methods and formulations for treating a patient suffering from one or more of chronic inflammatory injury, metaplasia, dysplasia or cancer of an epithelial tissue, which method comprises administering to the patient an agent that selectively kills or inhibits the proliferation or differentiation of pathogenic epithelial stem cells (PESCs) relative to normal epithelial stem cells in the tissue in which the PESCs are found. Representative epithelial tissues include pulmonary, genitourinary, gastrointestinal/esophageal, pancreatic and hepatic tissues.

The disclosure generally provides compositions and methods that are useful in the treatment of cancer. More specifically, the methods and compositions may be used to detect, quantify, inhibit, kill, differentiate, or eliminate cancer stem cells (CSCs) and may be used in the treatment of cancers associated with CSCs, and particularly cancers and CSCs that express LOX1.

This invention relates to the methods for the identification and isolation of cancer stem cells from cultured cancer cell lines. Cell line-derived cancer stem cells isolated using the present methods may be useful, for example, in assays to screen compounds for anti-cancer stem cell activity and in target discovery methods for identifying novel expressed genes and druggable targets. The invention also relates to the screening of compounds for activity against cell line-derived cancer stem cells.

The invention relates to improved culture methods for expanding epithelial stem cells and obtaining organoids, to culture media involved in said methods, and to uses of said organoids.

Provided methods of inhibiting a glioblastoma stem-like cell (GSC), methods of treating a subject with glioblastoma, and methods of reprogramming an astrocyte to a glioblastoma stem-like cell (GSC).

Methods for producing hepatocytes from pluripotent human stem cells are disclosed herein. The stem cells are plated on a cell culture substrate comprising two laminins. The stem cells are then exposed to different cell culture mediums to induce differentiation. The resulting hepatocytes have higher metabolic capacity compared to hepatocytes cultured on different substrates.

An isolated rat liver cancer stem cell line which is named as TW-1 is provided. A method for drug screening by using the isolated rat liver cancer stem cell line is also provided.

Markers of acute myeloid leukemia stem cells (AMLSC) are identified. The markers are differentially expressed in comparison with normal counterpart cells, and are useful as diagnostic and therapeutic targets.