Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

D Lähnemann, J Köster, E Szczurek, DJ McCarthy… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …

Intratumor heterogeneity: the rosetta stone of therapy resistance

A Marusyk, M Janiszewska, K Polyak - Cancer cell, 2020 - cell.com
Advances in our understanding of molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis have translated
into knowledge-based therapies directed against specific oncogenic signaling targets …

[HTML][HTML] Circulating tumor cell clustering shapes DNA methylation to enable metastasis seeding

S Gkountela, F Castro-Giner, BM Szczerba, M Vetter… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The ability of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) to form clusters has been linked to increased
metastatic potential. Yet biological features and vulnerabilities of CTC clusters remain …

Digital twins for predictive oncology will be a paradigm shift for precision cancer care

T Hernandez-Boussard, P Macklin, EJ Greenspan… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
To the Editor—In medicine, digital twin models use real-time data to adjust treatment,
monitor response and track lifestyle modifications. Similarly, cancer patient digital twins …

Cellular plasticity in cancer

S Yuan, RJ Norgard, BZ Stanger - Cancer discovery, 2019 - AACR
During cancer progression, tumor cells undergo molecular and phenotypic changes
collectively referred to as cellular plasticity. Such changes result from microenvironmental …

Enabling technologies for personalized and precision medicine

D Ho, SR Quake, ERB McCabe, WJ Chng… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Individualizing patient treatment is a core objective of the medical field. Reaching this
objective has been elusive owing to the complex set of factors contributing to both disease …

Drug-tolerant persister cells in cancer: the cutting edges and future directions

Y Pu, L Li, H Peng, L Liu, D Heymann… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Drug-tolerant persister (DTP) cell populations were originally discovered in antibiotic-
resistant bacterial biofilms. Similar populations with comparable features have since been …

Cancer as a disease of old age: changing mutational and microenvironmental landscapes

E Laconi, F Marongiu, J DeGregori - British journal of cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Why do we get cancer mostly when we are old? According to current paradigms, the answer
is simple: mutations accumulate in our tissues throughout life, and some of these mutations …

Integrating evolutionary dynamics into cancer therapy

RA Gatenby, JS Brown - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2020 - nature.com
Many effective drugs for metastatic and/or advanced-stage cancers have been developed
over the past decade, although the evolution of resistance remains the major barrier to …

Tumour immunotherapy: lessons from predator–prey theory

PT Hamilton, BR Anholt, BH Nelson - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
With the burgeoning use of immune-based treatments for cancer, never has there been a
greater need to understand the tumour microenvironment within which immune cells …