Cancer cell plasticity during tumor progression, metastasis and response to therapy

A Pérez-González, K Bévant, C Blanpain - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Cell plasticity represents the ability of cells to be reprogrammed and to change their fate and
identity, enabling homeostasis restoration and tissue regeneration following damage. Cell …

Strategies for 3D bioprinting of spheroids: A comprehensive review

D Banerjee, YP Singh, P Datta, V Ozbolat, A O'Donnell… - Biomaterials, 2022 - Elsevier
Biofabricated tissues have found numerous applications in tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine in addition to the promotion of disease modeling and drug …

Metastatic recurrence in colorectal cancer arises from residual EMP1+ cells

A Cañellas-Socias, C Cortina, X Hernando-Momblona… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract Around 30–40% of patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) undergoing curative
resection of the primary tumour will develop metastases in the subsequent years. Therapies …

Drug-tolerant persister cells in cancer: the cutting edges and future directions

Y Pu, L Li, H Peng, L Liu, D Heymann… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Drug-tolerant persister (DTP) cell populations were originally discovered in antibiotic-
resistant bacterial biofilms. Similar populations with comparable features have since been …

An oncogenic phenoscape of colonic stem cell polarization

X Qin, FC Rodriguez, J Sufi, P Vlckova, J Claus… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cancer cells are regulated by oncogenic mutations and microenvironmental signals, yet
these processes are often studied separately. To functionally map how cell-intrinsic and cell …

[HTML][HTML] Trellis tree-based analysis reveals stromal regulation of patient-derived organoid drug responses

MR Zapatero, A Tong, JW Opzoomer, R O'Sullivan… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Patient-derived organoids (PDOs) can model personalized therapy responses; however,
current screening technologies cannot reveal drug response mechanisms or how tumor …

Organoid cultures for cancer modeling

HHN Yan, AS Chan, FPL Lai, SY Leung - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Organoids derived from adult stem cells (ASCs) and pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) are
important preclinical models for studying cancer and developing therapies. Here, we review …

Aberrant cell state plasticity mediated by developmental reprogramming precedes colorectal cancer initiation

P Bala, JP Rennhack, D Aitymbayev, C Morris… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Cell state plasticity is carefully regulated in adult epithelia to prevent cancer. The aberrant
expansion of the normally restricted capability for cell state plasticity in neoplasia is poorly …

Sleeping Beauty transposon mutagenesis identified genes and pathways involved in inflammation-associated colon tumor development

K Shimomura, N Hattori, N Iida, Y Muranaka… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic inflammation promotes development and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC).
To comprehensively understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the development …

Alveolar Differentiation Drives Resistance to KRAS Inhibition in Lung Adenocarcinoma

Z Li, X Zhuang, CH Pan, Y Yan, R Thummalapalli… - Cancer Discovery, 2024 - AACR
Lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD), commonly driven by KRAS mutations, is responsible for 7%
of all cancer mortality. The first allele-specific KRAS inhibitors were recently approved in …