Impact of risk factors on early cancer evolution

CE Weeden, W Hill, EL Lim, E Grönroos, C Swanton - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Recent identification of oncogenic cells within healthy tissues and the prevalence of indolent
cancers found incidentally at autopsies reveal a greater complexity in tumor initiation than …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy in neurological diseases

S Malhotra, MCM Miras, A Pappolla, X Montalban… - Cells, 2023 - mdpi.com
The most recent and non-invasive approach for studying early-stage biomarkers is liquid
biopsy. This implies the extraction and analysis of non-solid biological tissues (serum …

The total mass, number, and distribution of immune cells in the human body

R Sender, Y Weiss, Y Navon, I Milo… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The immune system is a complex network of cells with critical functions in health and
disease. However, a comprehensive census of the cells comprising the immune system is …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy epigenomic profiling for cancer subtyping

SC Baca, JH Seo, MP Davidsohn, B Fortunato… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Although circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) assays are increasingly used to inform clinical
decisions in cancer care, they have limited ability to identify the transcriptional programs that …

G4access identifies G-quadruplexes and their associations with open chromatin and imprinting control regions

C Esnault, T Magat, A Zine El Aabidine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Metazoan promoters are enriched in secondary DNA structure-forming motifs, such as G-
quadruplexes (G4s). Here we describe 'G4access', an approach to isolate and sequence …

The origin of highly elevated cell-free DNA in healthy individuals and patients with pancreatic, colorectal, lung, or ovarian cancer

AK Mattox, C Douville, Y Wang, M Popoli, J Ptak… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Cell-free DNA (cfDNA) concentrations from patients with cancer are often elevated
compared with those of healthy controls, but the sources of this extra cfDNA have never …

Comprehensive tissue deconvolution of cell-free DNA by deep learning for disease diagnosis and monitoring

S Li, W Zeng, X Ni, Q Liu, W Li… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) is a noninvasive biomarker for cell death of all organs.
Deciphering the tissue origin of cfDNA can reveal abnormal cell death because of diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Ultrafast bisulfite sequencing detection of 5-methylcytosine in DNA and RNA

Q Dai, C Ye, I Irkliyenko, Y Wang, HL Sun, Y Gao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Bisulfite sequencing (BS-seq) to detect 5-methylcytosine (5mC) is limited by lengthy reaction
times, severe DNA damage, overestimation of 5mC level and incomplete C-to-U conversion …

Liquid Biopsy Based on Cell-Free DNA and RNA

C Loy, L Ahmann, I De Vlaminck… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
This review delves into the rapidly evolving landscape of liquid biopsy technologies based
on cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and cell-free RNA (cfRNA) and their increasingly prominent role in …

[HTML][HTML] Noninvasive Detection of Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer through Targeted Cell-free DNA Methylation

GM Franceschini, O Quaini, K Mizuno, F Orlando… - Cancer discovery, 2024 - AACR
Castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is a heterogeneous disease associated with
phenotypic subtypes that drive therapy response and outcome differences. Histologic …