Metastasis

S Gerstberger, Q Jiang, K Ganesh - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Most cancer-associated deaths occur due to metastasis, yet our understanding of metastasis
as an evolving, heterogeneous, systemic disease and of how to effectively treat it is still …

Profiling cell identity and tissue architecture with single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

GS Gulati, JP D'Silva, Y Liu, L Wang… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics has broadened our understanding of cellular diversity and gene
expression dynamics in healthy and diseased tissues. Recently, spatial transcriptomics has …

Pharmacological targeting of the cancer epigenome

NW Mabe, JA Perry, CF Malone, K Stegmaier - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenetic dysregulation is increasingly appreciated as a hallmark of cancer, including
disease initiation, maintenance and therapy resistance. As a result, there have been …

[HTML][HTML] A mouse model with high clonal barcode diversity for joint lineage, transcriptomic, and epigenomic profiling in single cells

L Li, S Bowling, SE McGeary, Q Yu, B Lemke, K Alcedo… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Cellular lineage histories and their molecular states encode fundamental principles of tissue
development and homeostasis. Current lineage-recording mouse models have insufficient …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering cell states and genealogies of human haematopoiesis

C Weng, F Yu, D Yang, M Poeschla, LA Liggett… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The human blood system is maintained through the differentiation and massive amplification
of a limited number of long-lived haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Perturbations to this …

Cancer drug-tolerant persister cells: from biological questions to clinical opportunities

M Russo, M Chen, E Mariella, H Peng… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
The emergence of drug resistance is the most substantial challenge to the effectiveness of
anticancer therapies. Orthogonal approaches have revealed that a subset of cells, known as …

The transcriptional and epigenetic landscape of cancer cell lineage plasticity

A Davies, A Zoubeidi, H Beltran, LA Selth - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Lineage plasticity, a process whereby cells change their phenotype to take on a different
molecular and/or histologic identity, is a key driver of cancer progression and therapy …

PhyloVelo enhances transcriptomic velocity field map** using monotonically expressed genes

K Wang, L Hou, X Wang, X Zhai, Z Lu, Z Zi… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a powerful approach for studying cellular
differentiation, but accurately tracking cell fate transitions can be challenging, especially in …

Defining heritability, plasticity, and transition dynamics of cellular phenotypes in somatic evolution

JS Schiffman, AR D'Avino, T Prieto, Y Pang, Y Fan… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell sequencing has characterized cell state heterogeneity across diverse healthy
and malignant tissues. However, the plasticity or heritability of these cell states remains …

Dissecting metastasis using preclinical models and methods

JD Hebert, JW Neal, MM Winslow - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Metastasis has long been understood to lead to the overwhelming majority of cancer-related
deaths. However, our understanding of the metastatic process, and thus our ability to …