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 …

Human cerebral organoids—a new tool for clinical neurology research

OL Eichmüller, JA Knoblich - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2022 - nature.com
The current understanding of neurological diseases is derived mostly from direct analysis of
patients and from animal models of disease. However, most patient studies do not capture …

[HTML][HTML] The single-cell and spatial transcriptional landscape of human gastrulation and early brain development

B Zeng, Z Liu, Y Lu, S Zhong, S Qin, L Huang, Y Zeng… - Cell Stem Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The emergence of the three germ layers and the lineage-specific precursor cells
orchestrating organogenesis represent fundamental milestones during early embryonic …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer-selective metabolic vulnerabilities in MYC-amplified medulloblastoma

WD Gwynne, Y Suk, S Custers, N Mikolajewicz… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
MYC-driven medulloblastoma (MB) is an aggressive pediatric brain tumor characterized by
therapy resistance and disease recurrence. Here, we integrated data from unbiased genetic …

Human cerebellar organoids with functional Purkinje cells

A Atamian, M Birtele, N Hosseini, T Nguyen, A Seth… - Cell Stem Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Research on human cerebellar development and disease has been hampered by the need
for a human cell-based system that recapitulates the human cerebellum's cellular diversity …

Human fetal cerebellar cell atlas informs medulloblastoma origin and oncogenesis

Z Luo, M **a, W Shi, C Zhao, J Wang, D **n, X Dong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma (MB) is the most common malignant childhood brain tumour,, yet the origin
of the most aggressive subgroup-3 form remains elusive, impeding development of effective …

Single-cell epigenomics and spatiotemporal transcriptomics reveal human cerebellar development

S Zhong, M Wang, L Huang, Y Chen, Y Ge… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Human cerebellar development is orchestrated by molecular regulatory networks to achieve
cytoarchitecture and coordinate motor and cognitive functions. Here, we combined single …

A group 3 medulloblastoma stem cell program is maintained by OTX2-mediated alternative splicing

O Saulnier, J Zagozewski, L Liang, LD Hendrikse… - Nature Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
OTX2 is a transcription factor and known driver in medulloblastoma (MB), where it is
amplified in a subset of tumours and overexpressed in most cases of group 3 and group 4 …

Common molecular features of H3K27M DMGs and PFA ependymomas map to hindbrain developmental pathways

M Pun, D Pratt, PR Nano, PK Joshi, L Jiang… - Acta Neuropathologica …, 2023 - Springer
Globally decreased histone 3, lysine 27 tri-methylation (H3K27me3) is a hallmark of H3K27-
altered diffuse midline gliomas (DMGs) and group-A posterior fossa ependymomas (PFAs) …

Recent advances in the molecular understanding of medulloblastoma

Y Funakoshi, Y Sugihara, A Uneda… - Cancer …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Medulloblastoma is the most common pediatric malignant brain tumor composed of four
molecular subgroups. Recent intensive genomics has greatly contributed to our …