Synthetic living materials in cancer biology

SR Peyton, LW Chow, SD Finley, ANF Versypt… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Living materials, which are made either of or by living cells, or are synthetic materials with
programmable elements catered to cells, are environmentally responsive and can self …

Modeling the extracellular matrix in cell migration and morphogenesis: a guide for the curious biologist

RM Crossley, S Johnson, E Tsingos, Z Bell… - Frontiers in cell and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
The extracellular matrix (ECM) is a highly complex structure through which biochemical and
mechanical signals are transmitted. In processes of cell migration, the ECM also acts as a …

[HTML][HTML] Multiscale modeling in disease

ANF Versypt - Current opinion in systems biology, 2021 - Elsevier
Multiscale computational modeling aims to connect the complex networks of effects at
different length and/or time scales. For example, these networks often include intracellular …

Complete dynamic analysis of homeostatic model: a feedback signal from extracellular matrix to FitzHugh–Nagumo neuron model

B Ramakrishnan, H Natiq, AMA Ali, K Rajagopal… - The European Physical …, 2023 - Springer
To examine the hemostatic behaviors of neural activity and extracellular matrix (ECM)
molecules, this paper provides a mathematical model for ECM combined with a FitzHugh …

A hybrid discrete–continuous model of metastatic cancer cell migration through a remodeling extracellular matrix

YT Nguyen Edalgo, AL Zornes… - AIChE Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
A major cause of cancer mortality is metastasis of cancer cells from a localized tumor to
other parts of the body. The interactions between cancer cells and the surrounding tumor …

On investigation of complexity in extracellular matrix-induced cancer dynamics under deterministic and stochastic framework

RK Upadhyay, AK Barman, P Das, B Panda - Nonlinear Dynamics, 2025 - Springer
Cancer attracts significant attention nowadays due to its rising global incidence, the
complexity of its biological mechanisms, and the challenges it presents in treatment and …

Multiscale modeling of collective cell migration elucidates the mechanism underlying tumor–stromal interactions in different spatiotemporal scales

Z Heidary, S Haghjooy Javanmard, I Izadi, N Zare… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Metastasis is the pathogenic spread of cancer cells from a primary tumor to a secondary site
which happens at the late stages of cancer. It is caused by a variety of biological, chemical …

A hybrid computational model of cancer spheroid growth with ribose-induced collagen stiffening

M Botticelli, J Metzcar, T Phillips, S Cox… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Metastasis, the leading cause of death in cancer patients, arises when cancer cells
disseminate from a primary solid tumour to distant organs. Growth and invasion of the solid …

Roles of interactions between cells and extracellular matrices for cell migration and matrix remodeling

J Li, W Jung, S Nam, O Chaudhuri, T Kim - Multi-scale extracellular matrix …, 2020 - Springer
Cells can sense mechanical properties of surrounding environments and also structurally
remodel the environments. Interactions between cells and extracellular matrix (ECM) play a …

Derivation and travelling wave analysis of phenotype-structured haptotaxis models of cancer invasion

T Lorenzi, FR Macfarlane, KJ Painter - European Journal of Applied …, 2024 - cambridge.org
We formulate haptotaxis models of cancer invasion wherein the infiltrating cancer cells can
occupy a spectrum of states in phenotype space, ranging from 'fully mesenchymal'to 'fully …