Phenotypic noise and plasticity in cancer evolution

FJH Whiting, J Househam, AM Baker, A Sottoriva… - Trends in Cell …, 2024 - cell.com
Non-genetic alterations can produce changes in a cell's phenotype. In cancer, these
phenomena can influence a cell's fitness by conferring access to heritable, beneficial …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding the interplay between genetic and non-genetic drivers of metastasis

P Karras, JRM Black, N McGranahan, JC Marine - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Metastasis is a multistep process by which cancer cells break away from their original
location and spread to distant organs, and is responsible for the vast majority of cancer …

A cell state-specific metabolic vulnerability to GPX4-dependent ferroptosis in glioblastoma

MA Banu, A Dovas, MG Argenziano, W Zhao… - The EMBO …, 2024 - embopress.org
Glioma cells hijack developmental programs to control cell state. Here, we uncover a glioma
cell state-specific metabolic liability that can be therapeutically targeted. To model cell …

Multiplexed single-cell lineage tracing of mitotic kinesin inhibitor resistance in glioblastoma

YL Cheng, MA Banu, W Zhao, SS Rosenfeld, P Canoll… - Cell reports, 2024 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM) is a deadly brain tumor, and the kinesin motor KIF11 is an attractive
therapeutic target with roles in proliferation and invasion. Resistance to KIF11 inhibitors …

Bridging the gap between tumor and disease: Innovating cancer and glioma models

SM Cirigliano, HA Fine - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2025 - rupress.org
Recent advances in cancer biology and therapeutics have underscored the importance of
preclinical models in understanding and treating cancer. Nevertheless, current models often …

Deciphering the landscape of transcriptional heterogeneity across cancer

TP Jones, N McGranahan - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
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Single-Cell Lineage Tracing and Clonal State-Fate Analysis

AE Rodriguez Fraticelli, PS Sánchez - Lineage Tracing: Methods and …, 2025 - Springer
Lineage tracing has significantly advanced our comprehension in many areas of biology,
such as development or immunity, by precisely measuring cellular processes like migration …

Unraveling the phylogenetic signal of gene expression from single-cell RNA-seq data

JM Alves, L Tomas, D Posada - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has transformed our understanding of phenotypic
heterogeneity. Although the predominant focus of scRNA-seq analyses has been assessing …

Detecting branching rate heterogeneity in multifurcating trees with applications in lineage tracing data

Y Gao, AF Feder - bioRxiv, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Understanding cellular birth rate differences is crucial for predicting cancer progression and
interpreting tumor-derived genetic data. Lineage tracing experiments enable detailed …