CRISPR in cancer biology and therapy

A Katti, BJ Diaz, CM Caragine, NE Sanjana… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past decade, CRISPR has become as much a verb as it is an acronym,
transforming biomedical research and providing entirely new approaches for dissecting all …

Pancreatic cancer evolution and heterogeneity: integrating omics and clinical data

AA Connor, S Gallinger - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), already among the deadliest epithelial
malignancies, is rising in both incidence and contribution to overall cancer deaths. Decades …

[HTML][HTML] Clonal dynamics of haematopoiesis across the human lifespan

E Mitchell, M Spencer Chapman, N Williams… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Age-related change in human haematopoiesis causes reduced regenerative capacity,
cytopenias, immune dysfunction and increased risk of blood cancer,–, but the reason for …

Somatic mutation landscapes at single-molecule resolution

F Abascal, LMR Harvey, E Mitchell, ARJ Lawson… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Somatic mutations drive the development of cancer and may contribute to ageing and other
diseases,. Despite their importance, the difficulty of detecting mutations that are only present …

A compendium of mutational cancer driver genes

F Martínez-Jiménez, F Muiños, I Sentís… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A fundamental goal in cancer research is to understand the mechanisms of cell
transformation. This is key to developing more efficient cancer detection methods and …

[HTML][HTML] Telomeres: history, health, and hallmarks of aging

D Chakravarti, KA LaBella, RA DePinho - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The escalating social and economic burden of an aging world population has placed aging
research at center stage. The hallmarks of aging comprise diverse molecular mechanisms …

Whole genome, transcriptome and methylome profiling enhances actionable target discovery in high-risk pediatric cancer

M Wong, C Mayoh, LMS Lau, DA Khuong-Quang… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Zero Childhood Cancer Program is a precision medicine program to benefit
children with poor-outcome, rare, relapsed or refractory cancer. Using tumor and germline …

Promises and challenges of adoptive T-cell therapies for solid tumours

M Morotti, A Albukhari, A Alsaadi, M Artibani… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide and, despite new targeted therapies and
immunotherapies, many patients with advanced-stage-or high-risk cancers still die, owing to …

Convergent somatic mutations in metabolism genes in chronic liver disease

SWK Ng, FJ Rouhani, SF Brunner, N Brzozowska… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The progression of chronic liver disease to hepatocellular carcinoma is caused by the
acquisition of somatic mutations that affect 20–30 cancer genes,,,,,,–. Burdens of somatic …

Clonal expansion in non-cancer tissues

N Kakiuchi, S Ogawa - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Cancer is a clonal disorder derived from a single ancestor cell and its progenies that are
positively selected by acquisition of 'driver mutations'. However, the evolution of positively …