Do TUNEL and other apoptosis assays detect cell death in preclinical studies?

R Mirzayans, D Murray - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated dUTP nick end labeling (TUNEL) assay
detects DNA breakage by labeling the free 3ʹ-hydroxyl termini. Given that genomic DNA …

HEK293 in cell biology and cancer research: phenotype, karyotype, tumorigenicity, and stress-induced genome-phenotype evolution

AA Stepanenko, VV Dmitrenko - Gene, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract 293 cell line (widely known as the Human Embryonic Kidney 293 cells) and its
derivatives were the most used cells after HeLa in cell biology studies and after CHO in …

Chromosomal instability accelerates the evolution of resistance to anti-cancer therapies

DA Lukow, EL Sausville, P Suri, NK Chunduri… - Developmental cell, 2021 - cell.com
Aneuploidy is a ubiquitous feature of human tumors, but the acquisition of aneuploidy
typically antagonizes cellular fitness. To investigate how aneuploidy could contribute to …

The role of chromosomal instability in cancer and therapeutic responses

N Vargas-Rondón, VE Villegas, M Rondón-Lagos - Cancers, 2017 - mdpi.com
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death, and despite increased research in recent
years, control of advanced-stage disease and optimal therapeutic responses remain elusive …

CRISPRthripsis: The risk of CRISPR/Cas9-induced chromothripsis in gene therapy

M Amendola, M Brusson, A Miccio - Stem Cells Translational …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR)/Cas9
nuclease system has allowed the generation of disease models and the development of …

Micronuclei and genome chaos: changing the system inheritance

CJ Ye, Z Sharpe, S Alemara, S Mackenzie, G Liu… - Genes, 2019 - mdpi.com
Micronuclei research has regained its popularity due to the realization that genome chaos, a
rapid and massive genome re-organization under stress, represents a major common …

The emerging links between chromosomal instability (CIN), metastasis, inflammation and tumour immunity

AE Tijhuis, SC Johnson, SE McClelland - Molecular cytogenetics, 2019 - Springer
Many cancers possess an incorrect number of chromosomes, a state described as
aneuploidy. Aneuploidy is often caused by Chromosomal Instability (CIN), a process of …

Genome chaos: Creating new genomic information essential for cancer macroevolution

J Heng, HH Heng - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Cancer research has traditionally focused on the characterization of individual molecular
mechanisms that can contribute to cancer. Due to the multiple levels of genomic and non …

[HTML][HTML] The “life code”: A theory that unifies the human life cycle and the origin of human tumors

J Liu - Seminars in cancer biology, 2020 - Elsevier
Tumors arise from the transformation of normal stem cells or mature somatic cells.
Intriguingly, two types of tumors have been observed by pathologists for centuries: well …

Making use of noise in biological systems

Y Ilan - Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Disorder and noise are inherent in biological systems. They are required to provide systems
with the advantages required for proper functioning. Noise is a part of the flexibility and …