[HTML][HTML] Cancer stem cells: the architects of the tumor ecosystem

BC Prager, Q **e, S Bao, JN Rich - Cell stem cell, 2019‏ - cell.com
Cancer stem cells (CSCs) proactively remodel their microenvironment to maintain a
supportive niche. Viewed through the lens of an ecosystem, numerous tumor components …

Impact of the physical microenvironment on tumor progression and metastasis

F Spill, DS Reynolds, RD Kamm, MH Zaman - Current opinion in …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Physical cues from the tumor microenvironment strongly affect cancer cell
behavior.•Novel techniques increasingly help to capture those cues in vitro.•Mechanisms for …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor cell technologies

MM Ferreira, VC Ramani, SS Jeffrey - Molecular oncology, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Circulating tumor cells, a component of the “liquid biopsy”, hold great potential to transform
the current landscape of cancer therapy. A key challenge to unlocking the clinical utility of …

Single-cell RNA-seq: advances and future challenges

AE Saliba, AJ Westermann, SA Gorski… - Nucleic acids …, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
Phenotypically identical cells can dramatically vary with respect to behavior during their
lifespan and this variation is reflected in their molecular composition such as the …

Mechanical adaptability of tumor cells in metastasis

V Gensbittel, M Kräter, S Harlepp, I Busnelli, J Guck… - Developmental cell, 2021‏ - cell.com
The most dangerous aspect of cancer lies in metastatic progression. Tumor cells will
successfully form life-threatening metastases when they undergo sequential steps along a …

Microfluidics: reframing biological enquiry

TA Duncombe, AM Tentori, AE Herr - Nature Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2015‏ - nature.com
The underlying physical properties of microfluidic tools have led to new biological insights
through the development of microsystems that can manipulate, mimic and measure biology …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells: From laboratory curiosity to industrial biomedical platform

C Denning, V Borgdorff, J Crutchley, KSA Firth… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs-CMs) could revolutionise
biomedicine. Global burden of heart failure will soon reach USD $90 bn, while unexpected …

Cancer stem cell plasticity–a deadly deal

AP Thankamony, K Saxena, R Murali… - Frontiers in molecular …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
Intratumoral heterogeneity is a major ongoing challenge in the effective therapeutic targeting
of cancer. Accumulating evidence suggests that a fraction of cells within a tumor termed …

Dual-responsive surfaces modified with phenylboronic acid-containing polymer brush to reversibly capture and release cancer cells

H Liu, Y Li, K Sun, J Fan, P Zhang, J Meng… - Journal of the …, 2013‏ - ACS Publications
Artificial stimuli-responsive surfaces that can mimic the dynamic function of living systems
have attracted much attention. However, there exist few artificial systems capable of …

Homeostatic membrane tension constrains cancer cell dissemination by counteracting BAR protein assembly

K Tsujita, R Satow, S Asada, Y Nakamura… - Nature …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Malignancy is associated with changes in cell mechanics that contribute to extensive cell
deformation required for metastatic dissemination. We hypothesized that the cell-intrinsic …