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 …

Diverse clonal fates emerge upon drug treatment of homogeneous cancer cells

Y Goyal, GT Busch, M Pillai, J Li, RH Boe, EI Grody… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Even among genetically identical cancer cells, resistance to therapy frequently emerges
from a small subset of those cells,,,,,–. Molecular differences in rare individual cells in the …

Live-seq enables temporal transcriptomic recording of single cells

W Chen, O Guillaume-Gentil, PY Rainer, CG Gäbelein… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics (scRNA-seq) has greatly advanced our ability to characterize
cellular heterogeneity. However, scRNA-seq requires lysing cells, which impedes further …

Unraveling non-genetic heterogeneity in cancer with dynamical models and computational tools

M Pillai, E Hojel, MK Jolly, Y Goyal - Nature Computational Science, 2023 - nature.com
Individual cells within an otherwise genetically homogenous population constantly undergo
fluctuations in their molecular state, giving rise to non-genetic heterogeneity. Such diversity …

Exploring functional protein covariation across single cells using nPOP

A Leduc, RG Huffman, J Cantlon, S Khan, N Slavov - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Many biological processes, such as cell division cycle and drug resistance, are
reflected in protein covariation across single cells. This covariation can be quantified and …

Lung endothelium exploits susceptible tumor cell states to instruct metastatic latency

M Jakab, KH Lee, A Uvarovskii, S Ovchinnikova… - Nature Cancer, 2024 - nature.com
In metastasis, cancer cells travel around the circulation to colonize distant sites. Due to the
rarity of these events, the immediate fates of metastasizing tumor cells (mTCs) are poorly …

ClampFISH 2.0 enables rapid, scalable amplified RNA detection in situ

I Dardani, BL Emert, Y Goyal, CL Jiang, A Kaur, J Lee… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
RNA labeling in situ has enormous potential to visualize transcripts and quantify their levels
in single cells, but it remains challenging to produce high levels of signal while also …

High throughput microscopy and single cell phenotypic image-based analysis in toxicology and drug discovery

F Stossi, PK Singh, K Safari, M Marini, D Labate… - Biochemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Measuring single cell responses to the universe of chemicals (drugs, natural products,
environmental toxicants etc.) is of paramount importance to human health as phenotypic …

Disrupting cellular memory to overcome drug resistance

G Harmange, RAR Hueros, DL Schaff, B Emert… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Gene expression states persist for varying lengths of time at the single-cell level, a
phenomenon known as gene expression memory. When cells switch states, losing memory …

Single-cell genomics in AML: extending the frontiers of AML research

A Ediriwickrema, AJ Gentles, R Majeti - Blood, 2023 - ashpublications.org
The era of genomic medicine has allowed acute myeloid leukemia (AML) researchers to
improve disease characterization, optimize risk-stratification systems, and develop new …