Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in drug discovery and development

B Van de Sande, JS Lee, E Mutasa-Gottgens… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) methods,
together with associated computational tools and the growing availability of public data …

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] Lineage tracing reveals the phylodynamics, plasticity, and paths of tumor evolution

D Yang, MG Jones, S Naranjo, WM Rideout, KHJ Min… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Tumor evolution is driven by the progressive acquisition of genetic and epigenetic
alterations that enable uncontrolled growth and expansion to neighboring and distal tissues …

Cancer aneuploidies are shaped primarily by effects on tumour fitness

J Shih, S Sarmashghi, N Zhakula-Kostadinova… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Aneuploidies—whole-chromosome or whole-arm imbalances—are the most prevalent
alteration in cancer genomes,. However, it is still debated whether their prevalence is due to …

[HTML][HTML] Triple negative breast cancer (TNBC): Non-genetic tumor heterogeneity and immune microenvironment: Emerging treatment options

JY So, J Ohm, S Lipkowitz, L Yang - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2022 - Elsevier
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive subtype characterized by extensive
intra-tumoral heterogeneity, and frequently develops resistance to therapies. Tumor …

Haplotype-aware analysis of somatic copy number variations from single-cell transcriptomes

T Gao, R Soldatov, H Sarkar, A Kurkiewicz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Genome instability and aberrant alterations of transcriptional programs both play important
roles in cancer. Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) has the potential to investigate …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell genomic variation induced by mutational processes in cancer

T Funnell, CH O'Flanagan, MJ Williams, A McPherson… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
How cell-to-cell copy number alterations that underpin genomic instability in human cancers
drive genomic and phenotypic variation, and consequently the evolution of cancer, remains …

Aneuploidy and complex genomic rearrangements in cancer evolution

TM Baker, S Waise, M Tarabichi, P Van Loo - Nature cancer, 2024 - nature.com
Mutational processes that alter large genomic regions occur frequently in developing
tumors. They range from simple copy number gains and losses to the shattering and …

Towards precision oncology with patient-derived xenografts

ER Zanella, E Grassi, L Trusolino - Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, 2022 - nature.com
Under the selective pressure of therapy, tumours dynamically evolve multiple adaptive
mechanisms that make static interrogation of genomic alterations insufficient to guide …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding and targeting prostate cancer cell heterogeneity and plasticity

DG Tang - Seminars in cancer biology, 2022 - Elsevier
Prostate cancer (PCa) is a prevalent malignancy that occurs primarily in old males. Prostate
tumors in different patients manifest significant inter-patient heterogeneity with respect to …