Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

D Lähnemann, J Köster, E Szczurek, DJ McCarthy… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …

Integrating genetic and non-genetic determinants of cancer evolution by single-cell multi-omics

AS Nam, R Chaligne, DA Landau - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer represents an evolutionary process through which growing malignant populations
genetically diversify, leading to tumour progression, relapse and resistance to therapy. In …

Every step of the way: integrins in cancer progression and metastasis

H Hamidi, J Ivaska - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2018 - nature.com
Cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix is fundamental to tissue integrity and human health.
Integrins are the main cellular adhesion receptors that through multifaceted roles as …

[HTML][HTML] Clonal heterogeneity and tumor evolution: past, present, and the future

N McGranahan, C Swanton - Cell, 2017 - cell.com
Intratumor heterogeneity, which fosters tumor evolution, is a key challenge in cancer
medicine. Here, we review data and technologies that have revealed intra-tumor …

[HTML][HTML] An epigenetic role of mitochondria in cancer

Y Liu, C Chen, X Wang, Y Sun, J Zhang, J Chen, Y Shi - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mitochondria are not only the main energy supplier but are also the cell metabolic center
regulating multiple key metaborates that play pivotal roles in epigenetics regulation. These …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-talk between cancer stem cells and immune cells: potential therapeutic targets in the tumor immune microenvironment

B Wu, X Shi, M Jiang, H Liu - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Ongoing research has revealed that the existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) is one of the
biggest obstacles in the current cancer therapy. CSCs make an influential function in tumor …

[HTML][HTML] Systems biology of cancer metastasis

Y Suhail, MP Cain, K Vanaja, PA Kurywchak… - Cell systems, 2019 - cell.com
Cancer metastasis is no longer viewed as a linear cascade of events but rather as a series
of concurrent, partially overlapping processes, as successfully metastasizing cells assume …

[HTML][HTML] Proliferating active matter

O Hallatschek, SS Datta, K Drescher, J Dunkel… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The fascinating patterns of collective motion created by autonomously driven particles have
fuelled active-matter research for over two decades. So far, theoretical active-matter …

stLearn: integrating spatial location, tissue morphology and gene expression to find cell types, cell-cell interactions and spatial trajectories within undissociated tissues

D Pham, X Tan, J Xu, LF Grice, PY Lam, A Raghubar… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Spatial Transcriptomics is an emerging technology that adds spatial dimensionality and
tissue morphology to the genome-wide transcriptional profile of cells in an undissociated …