{"id":220938,"date":"2025-08-25T20:04:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/cell-mapping-tool-provides-insightful-multi-layered-view-of-cancer-behavior"},"modified":"2025-08-25T20:04:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T01:04:02","slug":"cell-mapping-tool-provides-insightful-multi-layered-view-of-cancer-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/cell-mapping-tool-provides-insightful-multi-layered-view-of-cancer-behavior","title":{"rendered":"Cell-mapping tool provides insightful multi-layered view of cancer behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cell-mapping-tool-provides-insightful-multi-layered-view-of-cancer-behavior.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new computational tool called Vesalius, which could help clinicians understand the complex relationships between cancer cells and their surrounding cells, leading to potential discoveries regarding the development of hard-to-treat cancers.<\/p>\n<p>Findings from a new study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-62782-y\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, could help guide the identification of predictive biomarkers for multiple cancers and better inform the effectiveness of different treatment options based on individuals\u2019 specific type of disease.<\/p>\n<p>Rajan Gogna, Ph.D., member of the Developmental Therapeutics research program at Massey and assistant professor in the VCU School of Medicine\u2019s Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, and a team of collaborators were driven by the goal of interpreting extensive amounts of data in a meaningful way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at VCU Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center have developed a new computational tool called Vesalius, which could help clinicians understand the complex relationships between cancer cells and their surrounding cells, leading to potential discoveries regarding the development of hard-to-treat cancers. Findings from a new study, published in Nature Communications, could help guide the identification of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1523,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-computing","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}