Epigenetics as a mediator of plasticity in cancer

AP Feinberg, A Levchenko - Science, 2023 - science.org
The concept of an epigenetic landscape describing potential cellular fates arising from
pluripotent cells, first advanced by Conrad Waddington, has evolved in light of experiments …

Decoding leader cells in collective cancer invasion

SA Vilchez Mercedes, F Bocci, H Levine… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Collective cancer invasion with leader–follower organization is increasingly recognized as a
predominant mechanism in the metastatic cascade. Leader cells support cancer invasion by …

Cell form and function: interpreting and controlling the shape of adherent cells

A Prasad, E Alizadeh - Trends in biotechnology, 2019 - cell.com
Beautiful images of animal cells cultured on surfaces are ubiquitous in biological research,
but these shapes also carry valuable information about the cells and the organism that they …

Bridging from single to collective cell migration: A review of models and links to experiments

A Buttenschön, L Edelstein-Keshet - PLoS computational biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Mathematical and computational models can assist in gaining an understanding of cell
behavior at many levels of organization. Here, we review models in the literature that focus …

Implementing computational modeling in tissue engineering: where disciplines meet

JN Post, S Loerakker, RMH Merks… - Tissue Engineering Part …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
In recent years, the mathematical and computational sciences have developed novel
methodologies and insights that can aid in designing advanced bioreactors, microfluidic …

Periodic propagating waves coordinate RhoGTPase network dynamics at the leading and trailing edges during cell migration

A Bolado-Carrancio, OS Rukhlenko, E Nikonova… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Migrating cells need to coordinate distinct leading and trailing edge dynamics but the
underlying mechanisms are unclear. Here, we combine experiments and mathematical …

Classification of bursting patterns: A tale of two ducks

M Desroches, J Rinzel, S Rodrigues - PLoS computational biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Bursting is one of the fundamental rhythms that excitable cells can generate either in
response to incoming stimuli or intrinsically. It has been a topic of intense research in …

Learning anisotropic interaction rules from individual trajectories in a heterogeneous cellular population

DA Messenger, GE Wheeler… - Journal of The Royal …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Interacting particle system (IPS) models have proven to be highly successful for describing
the spatial movement of organisms. However, it is challenging to infer the interaction rules …

Fabrication of Chitosan/Polypyrrole‐coated poly (L‐lactic acid)/Polycaprolactone aligned fibre films for enhancement of neural cell compatibility and neurite growth

Y Xu, Z Huang, X Pu, G Yin, J Zhang - Cell Proliferation, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Chitosan (CS) and polycaprolactone (PCL) were added into a nerve scaffold of
poly (L‐lactide acid)(PLLA)/polypyrrole (PP y)‐based fibre films to solve the unmatch with …

Sensing the shape of a cell with reaction diffusion and energy minimization

AR Singh, T Leadbetter… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Some dividing cells sense their shape by becoming polarized along their long axis. Cell
polarity is controlled in part by polarity proteins, like Rho GTPases, cycling between active …