The fight against cancer by microgravity: the multicellular spheroid as a metastasis model

D Grimm, H Schulz, M Krüger… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cancer is a disease exhibiting uncontrollable cell growth and spreading to other parts of the
organism. It is a heavy, worldwide burden for mankind with high morbidity and mortality …

The translational challenges of precision oncology

O Pich, C Bailey, TBK Watkins, S Zaccaria… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - Elsevier
The translational challenges in the field of precision oncology are in part related to the
biological complexity and diversity of this disease. Technological advances in genomics …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-wide mapping of somatic mutation rates uncovers drivers of cancer

MA Sherman, AU Yaari, O Priebe, F Dietlein… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Identification of cancer driver mutations that confer a proliferative advantage is central to
understanding cancer; however, searches have often been limited to protein-coding …

Genome-wide analysis of somatic noncoding mutation patterns in cancer

F Dietlein, AB Wang, C Fagre, A Tang, NJM Besselink… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We established a genome-wide compendium of somatic mutation events in 3949 whole
cancer genomes representing 19 tumor types. Protein-coding events captured well …

Characterizing and explaining the impact of disease-associated mutations in proteins without known structures or structural homologs

N Sen, I Anishchenko, N Bordin, I Sillitoe… - Briefings in …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Mutations in human proteins lead to diseases. The structure of these proteins can help
understand the mechanism of such diseases and develop therapeutics against them. With …

Biological and clinical perspectives of TERT promoter mutation detection on bladder cancer diagnosis and management

L Cheng, S Zhang, M Wang, A Lopez-Beltran - Human Pathology, 2022 - Elsevier
The telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) promoter mutations are associated with
increased TERT mRNA and TERT protein levels, telomerase activity, and shorter but stable …

[HTML][HTML] Biomolecular condensates in cancer biology

HI Suzuki, K Onimaru - Cancer Science, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Understanding the characteristics of cancer cells is essential for the development of
improved diagnosis and therapeutics. From a gene regulation perspective, the super …

Application of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in photothermal and photodynamic therapy of cancer: An updated and comprehensive review

S Sargazi, ER Simge, SS Gelen, A Rahdar… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2022 - Elsevier
The usage of nanoparticles (NPs) in treating and diagnosing many diseases, especially
cancer, has been investigated in recent studies. The primary purpose of using …

[HTML][HTML] Somatic mutation distribution across tumour cohorts provides a signal for positive selection in cancer

M Boström, E Larsson - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer gene discovery is reliant on distinguishing driver mutations from a multitude of
passenger mutations in tumour genomes. While driver genes may be revealed based on …

[HTML][HTML] The genomic landscape of canine osteosarcoma cell lines reveals conserved structural complexity and pathway alterations

K Megquier, J Turner-Maier, K Morrill, X Li, J Johnson… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The characterization of immortalized canine osteosarcoma (OS) cell lines used for research
has historically been based on phenotypic features such as cellular morphology and …