Scalable reinforcement-learning-based neural architecture search for cancer deep learning research

P Balaprakash, R Egele, M Salim, S Wild… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Cancer is a complex disease, the understanding and treatment of which are being aided
through increases in the volume of collected data and in the scale of deployed computing …

Personalized treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma: Current status and future perspectives

SL Chan, N Wong, WKJ Lam… - … of Gastroenterology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Systemic treatment for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been advancing rapidly over the
last decade. More novel agents, including both targeted agents and immune checkpoint …

Engineering chimeric antigen receptor-T cells for cancer treatment

B Ye, CM Stary, X Li, Q Gao, C Kang, X Xiong - Molecular cancer, 2018 - Springer
Intratumor heterogeneity of tumor clones and an immunosuppressive microenvironment in
cancer ecosystems contribute to inherent difficulties for tumor treatment. Recently, chimeric …

[HTML][HTML] Multiregional tumor trees are not phylogenies

JM Alves, T Prieto, D Posada - Trends in cancer, 2017 - cell.com
Tumor samples most often comprise a mixture of different cell lineages. Multiregional trees
built from bulk mutational profiles do not consider this heterogeneity and can potentially lead …

Epimutations define a fast-ticking molecular clock in plants

N Yao, RJ Schmitz, F Johannes - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Stochastic gains and losses of DNA methylation at CG dinucleotides are a frequent
occurrence in plants. These spontaneous 'epimutations' occur at a rate that is 100 000 times …

[HTML][HTML] Asymptotic analysis and optimal control of an integro-differential system modelling healthy and cancer cells exposed to chemotherapy

C Pouchol, J Clairambault, A Lorz, E Trélat - Journal de Mathématiques …, 2018 - Elsevier
We consider a system of two coupled integro-differential equations modelling populations of
healthy and cancer cells under chemotherapy. Both populations are structured by a …

Reconstructing evolutionary trajectories of mutation signature activities in cancer using TrackSig

Y Rubanova, R Shi, CF Harrigan, R Li… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The type and genomic context of cancer mutations depend on their causes. These causes
have been characterized using signatures that represent mutation types that co-occur in the …

Natural selection in cancer biology: from molecular snowflakes to trait hallmarks

A Fortunato, A Boddy, D Mallo… - Cold Spring …, 2017 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Evolution by natural selection is the conceptual foundation for nearly every branch of biology
and increasingly also for biomedicine and medical research. In cancer biology, evolution …

The global relationship between chromatin physical topology, fractal structure, and gene expression

LM Almassalha, A Tiwari, PT Ruhoff, Y Stypula-Cyrus… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Most of what we know about gene transcription comes from the view of cells as molecular
machines: focusing on the role of molecular modifications to the proteins carrying out …

Two-phased evolution: Genome chaos-mediated information creation and maintenance

J Heng, HH Heng - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Cancer is traditionally labeled a “cellular growth problem.” However, it is fundamentally an
issue of macroevolution where new systems emerge from tissue by breaking various …