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Selected coverage and commentary on work from the lab and our collaborators.

Nature Genetics · June 2026 · News & Views
Age identifies cancer drivers hidden within the genome
A perspective on the lab’s framework for separating mutations that help clones thrive from mutations that actually cause cancer.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-026-02631-w

Nature Biomedical Engineering · December 2024 · News & Views
Latent spaces for tumour transcriptomes
Commentary on deep-learning approaches that reveal shared and cancer-specific patterns across 18 tumour types.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-024-01322-3

Mass General · February 2021 · Research News
Atherosclerosis can accelerate clonal hematopoiesis
Coverage of work connecting cardiovascular inflammation, stem-cell proliferation and the expansion of mutant blood-cell clones.
https://www.massgeneral.org/news/press-release/Atherosclerosis-can-accelerate-the-development-of-clonal-hematopoiesis-study-finds

Mass General · May 2020 · Snapshot of Science
A wider evolutionary bottleneck in distant metastasis
A concise look at why lymph-node metastases can be founded by many cells while spread to distant organs is more restrictive.
https://www.massgeneral.org/research/news/newsletters/snapshotscience/may-2020

Mass General · July 2017 · Snapshot of Science
Rethinking the route from lymph nodes to distant metastases
Coverage of the lab’s reconstruction of colorectal-cancer family trees and what they reveal about metastatic spread.
https://www.massgeneral.org/research/news/newsletters/snapshotscience/july-2017