WCM154 organoids were cultured and maintained as described18. Organoids were dissociated to single cells using TrypLE (ThermoFisher). One million cells were resuspended in 20 μl of electroporation buffer (BTXpress) and mixed with 60 pmole of control or FOXA1 On-target pool siRNA (Dharmacon). Then organoid-siRNA mixtures were transferred to a 16-well NucleocuvetteTM Strip and nucleofection was performed in a 4D-Nucleofector (Lonza). Following nucleofection, 105 organoids cells were grown in a 12-well plate coated with 1% collagen I (ThermoFisher) for 7 days. Both adherent and floating cells were collected and stained with 0.4% trypan blue solution (ThermoFisher). Total cell numbers were measured by a hemocytometer. Cell proliferation with FOXA1 knock-down was normalized to control siRNA cells.
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