Konstantine Tchourine

Nov 29, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Peng Su |Konstantine Tchourine |Dennis Vitkup

AbstractMacroecological relationships that describe various statistical associations between species' abundances, their spatial, and temporal variability are among the most general laws in ecology and biology. One of the most commonly observed relationships is a power-law scaling between means and variances of temporal species abundances, known in ecology as Taylor's law.

Aug 18, 2024 | nature.com | Konstantine Tchourine |Keene L. Abbott |Florian Gourgue |Brian T. Do |Tenzin Kunchok |Allison Lau | +9 more

AbstractMetastases arise from subsets of cancer cells that disseminate from the primary tumour1,2. The ability of cancer cells to thrive in a new tissue site is influenced by genetic and epigenetic changes that are important for disease initiation and progression, but these factors alone do not predict if and where cancers metastasize3,4. Specific cancer types metastasize to consistent subsets of tissues, suggesting that primary tumour-associated factors influence where cancers can grow.