RNA Interference (RNAi) Screening in Drosophila

F Heigwer, F Port, M Boutros - Genetics, 2018 - academic.oup.com
In the last decade, RNA interference (RNAi), a cellular mechanism that uses RNA-guided
degradation of messenger RNA transcripts, has had an important impact on identifying and …

Big data in chemical toxicity research: the use of high-throughput screening assays to identify potential toxicants

H Zhu, J Zhang, MT Kim, A Boison… - Chemical research in …, 2014 - ACS Publications
High-throughput screening (HTS) assays that measure the in vitro toxicity of environmental
compounds have been widely applied as an alternative to in vivo animal tests of chemical …

JAK–STAT Signaling in Inflammatory Breast Cancer Enables Chemotherapy-Resistant Cell States

LE Stevens, G Peluffo, X Qiu, D Temko, A Fassl, Z Li… - Cancer research, 2023 - AACR
Inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) is a difficult-to-treat disease with poor clinical outcomes
due to high risk of metastasis and resistance to treatment. In breast cancer, CD44+ CD24 …

Immune Escape in Breast Cancer During In Situ to Invasive Carcinoma Transition

CR Gil Del Alcazar, SJ Huh, MB Ekram, A Trinh, LL Liu… - Cancer discovery, 2017 - AACR
To investigate immune escape during breast tumor progression, we analyzed the
composition of leukocytes in normal breast tissues, ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), and …

Analysis of transcriptional variability in a large human iPSC library reveals genetic and non-genetic determinants of heterogeneity

I Carcamo-Orive, GE Hoffman, P Cundiff… - Cell stem cell, 2017 - cell.com
Variability in induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines remains a concern for disease
modeling and regenerative medicine. We have used RNA-sequencing analysis and linear …

Defining super-enhancer landscape in triple-negative breast cancer by multiomic profiling

H Huang, J Hu, A Maryam, Q Huang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Breast cancer is a heterogeneous disease, affecting over 3.5 million women worldwide, yet
the functional role of cis-regulatory elements including super-enhancers in different breast …

Downregulation of exhausted cytotoxic T cells in gene expression networks of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children

ND Beckmann, PH Comella, E Cheng, L Lepow… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) presents with fever, inflammation
and pathology of multiple organs in individuals under 21 years of age in the weeks following …

LncRNA MIR200CHG inhibits EMT in gastric cancer by stabilizing miR-200c from target-directed miRNA degradation

Y Zhu, C Huang, C Zhang, Y Zhou, E Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Gastric cancer (GC) is a heterogeneous disease, threatening millions of lives worldwide, yet
the functional roles of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) in different GC subtypes remain …

A recurrent 11q aberration pattern characterizes a subset of MYC-negative high-grade B-cell lymphomas resembling Burkitt lymphoma

I Salaverria, I Martin-Guerrero… - Blood, The Journal …, 2014 - ashpublications.org
The genetic hallmark of Burkitt lymphoma (BL) is the t (8; 14)(q24; q32) and its variants
leading to activation of the MYC oncogene. It is a matter of debate whether true BL without …

siPools: highly complex but accurately defined siRNA pools eliminate off-target effects

M Hannus, M Beitzinger, JC Engelmann… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) are widely used as tool for gene inactivation in basic
research and therapeutic applications. One of the major shortcomings of siRNA experiments …