Breast cancers exhibit diverse metabolic cross-feeding behaviors associated with differing long-term survival

Introduction: Intrinsic breast cancer subtypes (e.g., Normal-like, Luminal A/B, HER2-enriched, Triple Negative) vary in their responsiveness to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NACT) and are associated with differing long-term prognosis. Expression dis-regulation of critical regulatory pathways partially accounts for variance in cancer phenotype…

De-escalating care using computational oncology

Introduction: When considering the use of NACT for breast cancer, healthcare providers and patients must weigh the risks associated with different potential standard of care (SoC) treatment regimens against the likelihood of achieving a desired outcome. The decision of treatment…

Cellular network modeling and single cell gene expression analysis reveals novel hepatic stellate cell phenotypes controlling liver regeneration dynamics

Abstract: Background Recent results from single cell gene and protein regulation studies are starting to uncover the previously underappreciated fact that individual cells within a population exhibit high variability in the expression of mRNA and proteins (i.e., molecular variability). By…