Past, present, and future of CRISPR genome editing technologies

M Pacesa, O Pelea, M **ek - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Genome editing has been a transformative force in the life sciences and human medicine,
offering unprecedented opportunities to dissect complex biological processes and treat the …

A developmental constraint model of cancer cell states and tumor heterogeneity

AS Patel, I Yanai - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Cancer is a disease that stems from a fundamental liability inherent to multicellular life forms
in which an individual cell is capable of reneging on the interests of the collective organism …

Cancer, metastasis, and the epigenome

S Kiri, T Ryba - Molecular Cancer, 2024 - Springer
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide and disease burden is expected to
increase globally throughout the next several decades, with the majority of cancer-related …

Molecular recording using DNA Typewriter

H Liao, J Choi, J Shendure - Nature Protocols, 2024 - nature.com
Recording molecular information to genomic DNA is a powerful means of investigating
topics ranging from multicellular development to cancer evolution. With molecular recording …

[HTML][HTML] Oncogenic Cell Tagging and Single-Cell Transcriptomics Reveal Cell Type–Specific and Time-Resolved Responses to Vhl Inactivation in the Kidney

S Kurlekar, JDCC Lima, R Li, O Lombardi… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
Defining the initial events in oncogenesis and the cellular responses they entrain, even in
advance of morphologic abnormality, is a fundamental challenge in understanding cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal lineage tracing reveals the dynamic spatial architecture of tumor growth and metastasis

MG Jones, D Sun, KHJ Min, WN Colgan, L Tian… - …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumor progression is driven by dynamic interactions between cancer cells and their
surrounding microenvironment. Investigating the spatiotemporal evolution of tumors can …

Punctuational evolution is pervasive in distal site metastatic colonization

G Butler, SR Amend, C Venditti… - Proceedings B, 2025 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolution of metastasis, the spread of cancer to distal sites within the body, represents a
lethal stage of cancer progression. Yet, the evolutionary dynamics that shape the …

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 …

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 …

LCL: Contrastive Learning for Lineage Barcoded scRNA-seq Data

SJ Yang, Y Wang, KZ Lin - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Single-cell lineage tracing technology has advanced the investigation of progenitor cells'
development using static, inheritable barcodes. It can determine temporal dynamics in …