Spatial biology of cancer evolution

Z Seferbekova, A Lomakin, LR Yates… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
The natural history of cancers can be understood through the lens of evolution given that the
driving forces of cancer development are mutation and selection of fitter clones. Cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Single cell cancer epigenetics

M Casado-Pelaez, A Bueno-Costa, M Esteller - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Bulk sequencing methodologies have allowed us to make great progress in cancer
research. Unfortunately, these techniques lack the resolution to fully unravel the epigenetic …

Phenotypic plasticity and genetic control in colorectal cancer evolution

J Househam, T Heide, GD Cresswell, I Spiteri… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic and epigenetic variation, together with transcriptional plasticity, contribute to
intratumour heterogeneity. The interplay of these biological processes and their respective …

An updated review on EPR-based solid tumor targeting nanocarriers for cancer treatment

M Sharifi, WC Cho, A Ansariesfahani, R Tarharoudi… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary One of the important efforts in the treatment of cancers is to achieve
targeted drug delivery by nanocarriers to be more effective and reduce adverse effects …

A survey of open questions in adaptive therapy: Bridging mathematics and clinical translation

J West, F Adler, J Gallaher, M Strobl, R Brady-Nicholls… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Adaptive therapy is a dynamic cancer treatment protocol that updates (or 'adapts') treatment
decisions in anticipation of evolving tumor dynamics. This broad term encompasses many …

Agent-based methods facilitate integrative science in cancer

J West, M Robertson-Tessi, ARA Anderson - Trends in cell biology, 2023 - cell.com
In this opinion, we highlight agent-based modeling as a key tool for exploration of cell–cell
and cell–environment interactions that drive cancer progression, therapeutic resistance, and …

Spatial transcriptomics technology in cancer research

Q Yu, M Jiang, L Wu - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In recent years, spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies have developed rapidly and have
been widely used in constructing spatial tissue atlases and characterizing spatiotemporal …

Normal tissue architecture determines the evolutionary course of cancer

J West, RO Schenck, C Gatenbee… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer growth can be described as a caricature of the renewal process of the tissue of
origin, where the tissue architecture has a strong influence on the evolutionary dynamics …

A theoretical analysis of tumour containment

Y Viossat, R Noble - Nature ecology & evolution, 2021 - nature.com
Recent studies have shown that a strategy aiming for containment, not elimination, can
control tumour burden more effectively in vitro, in mouse models and in the clinic. These …

State-dependent evolutionary models reveal modes of solid tumour growth

MA Lewinsohn, T Bedford, NF Müller… - Nature Ecology & …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial properties of tumour growth have profound implications for cancer progression,
therapeutic resistance and metastasis. Yet, how spatial position governs tumour cell division …