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 …

Non-genetic mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in cancer

JC Marine, SJ Dawson, MA Dawson - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic resistance continues to be an indominable foe in our ambition for curative
cancer treatment. Recent insights into the molecular determinants of acquired treatment …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals that glioblastoma recapitulates a normal neurodevelopmental hierarchy

CP Couturier, S Ayyadhury, PU Le, J Nadaf… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cancer stem cells are critical for cancer initiation, development, and treatment resistance.
Our understanding of these processes, and how they relate to glioblastoma heterogeneity, is …

Local mutational diversity drives intratumoral immune heterogeneity in non-small cell lung cancer

Q Jia, W Wu, Y Wang, PB Alexander, C Sun… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Combining whole exome sequencing, transcriptome profiling, and T cell repertoire analysis,
we investigate the spatial features of surgically-removed biopsies from multiple loci in tumor …

Spatial maps of prostate cancer transcriptomes reveal an unexplored landscape of heterogeneity

E Berglund, J Maaskola, N Schultz, S Friedrich… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Intra-tumor heterogeneity is one of the biggest challenges in cancer treatment today. Here
we investigate tissue-wide gene expression heterogeneity throughout a multifocal prostate …

Childhood cerebellar tumours mirror conserved fetal transcriptional programs

MC Vladoiu, I El-Hamamy, LK Donovan, H Farooq… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Study of the origin and development of cerebellar tumours has been hampered by the
complexity and heterogeneity of cerebellar cells that change over the course of …

Medulloblastomics revisited: biological and clinical insights from thousands of patients

V Hovestadt, O Ayrault, FJ Swartling… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Medulloblastoma, a malignant brain tumour primarily diagnosed during childhood, has
recently been the focus of intensive molecular profiling efforts, profoundly advancing our …

Locoregional delivery of CAR T cells to the cerebrospinal fluid for treatment of metastatic medulloblastoma and ependymoma

LK Donovan, A Delaidelli, SK Joseph, K Bielamowicz… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Recurrent medulloblastoma and ependymoma are universally lethal, with no approved
targeted therapies and few candidates presently under clinical evaluation. Nearly all …

Ongoing chromosomal instability and karyotype evolution in human colorectal cancer organoids

ACF Bolhaqueiro, B Ponsioen, B Bakker, SJ Klaasen… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Chromosome segregation errors cause aneuploidy and genomic heterogeneity, which are
hallmarks of cancer in humans. A persistent high frequency of these errors (chromosomal …

Circulating tumour DNA from the cerebrospinal fluid allows the characterisation and monitoring of medulloblastoma

L Escudero, A Llort, A Arias, A Diaz-Navarro… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The molecular characterisation of medulloblastoma, the most common paediatric brain
tumour, is crucial for the correct management and treatment of this heterogenous disease …