The Hitchhiker's Guide across a Waddington's landscape of melanoma.

Dev Cell

Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. Electronic address:

Published: November 2022

Melanoma evolution may recapitulate the embryonic development of its progenitor tissue, neural crest (NC), but the exact process is unclear. In a recent issue of Nature, Karras et al. (2022) demonstrate that melanoma expansion mirrors the hierarchic process of NC differentiation, generating cell subpopulations, each with distinct function, including growth and metastasis.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2022.10.005DOI Listing

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