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3D Cell-Printed Hypoxic Cancer-on-a-Chip for Recapitulating Pathologic Progression of Solid Cancer
Published on: January 5, 2021
Recent progress in single-cell cancer genomics
Daphne Tsoucas1, Guo-Cheng Yuan1
1Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02215, USA; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Abstract:
The advent of single-cell sequencing has been revolutionary to the field of cancer genomics. Perfectly suited to capture cancer's heterogeneous nature, single-cell analyses provide information bulk sequencing could never hope to uncover. Many mechanisms of cancer have yet to be fully understood, and single-cell approaches are showing promise in their abilities to uncover these mysteries. Here we focus on the most recent single-cell methods for cancer genomics, and how they are not only providing insights into the inner workings of cancer, but are also transforming individualized therapy and non-invasive monitoring and diagnosis.
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