Cancer stem cells: advances in knowledge and implications for cancer therapy

X Chu, W Tian, J Ning, G **ao, Y Zhou… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2024 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs), a small subset of cells in tumors that are characterized by self-
renewal and continuous proliferation, lead to tumorigenesis, metastasis, and maintain tumor …

Cancers make their own luck: theories of cancer origins

A Jassim, EP Rahrmann, BD Simons… - Nature reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Cancer has been a leading cause of death for decades. This dismal statistic has increased
efforts to prevent the disease or to detect it early, when treatment is less invasive, relatively …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative model of cellular states, plasticity, and genetics for glioblastoma

C Neftel, J Laffy, MG Filbin, T Hara, ME Shore… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Diverse genetic, epigenetic, and developmental programs drive glioblastoma, an incurable
and poorly understood tumor, but their precise characterization remains challenging. Here …

Electrical and synaptic integration of glioma into neural circuits

HS Venkatesh, W Morishita, AC Geraghty, D Silverbush… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
High-grade gliomas are lethal brain cancers whose progression is robustly regulated by
neuronal activity. Activity-regulated release of growth factors promotes glioma growth, but …

[HTML][HTML] Interactions between cancer cells and immune cells drive transitions to mesenchymal-like states in glioblastoma

T Hara, R Chanoch-Myers, ND Mathewson, C Myskiw… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The mesenchymal subtype of glioblastoma is thought to be determined by both cancer cell-
intrinsic alterations and extrinsic cellular interactions, but remains poorly understood. Here …

Single-cell RNA-seq highlights intra-tumoral heterogeneity and malignant progression in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma

J Peng, BF Sun, CY Chen, JY Zhou, YS Chen, H Chen… - Cell research, 2019 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the most common type of pancreatic cancer
featured with high intra-tumoral heterogeneity and poor prognosis. To comprehensively …

Integrating microarray-based spatial transcriptomics and single-cell RNA-seq reveals tissue architecture in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas

R Moncada, D Barkley, F Wagner, M Chiodin… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables the systematic identification of cell
populations in a tissue, but characterizing their spatial organization remains challenging. We …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals AML hierarchies relevant to disease progression and immunity

P van Galen, V Hovestadt, MH Wadsworth II… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a heterogeneous disease that resides within a complex
microenvironment, complicating efforts to understand how different cell types contribute to …

Spatial deconvolution of HER2-positive breast cancer delineates tumor-associated cell type interactions

A Andersson, L Larsson, L Stenbeck, F Salmén… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
In the past decades, transcriptomic studies have revolutionized cancer treatment and
diagnosis. However, tumor sequencing strategies typically result in loss of spatial …

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 …