Characterization of hybrid cells derived from spontaneous fusion events between breast epithelial cells exhibiting stem-like characteristics and breast cancer cells

Changing potency by spontaneous fusion

Qi‐Long Ying, Jennifer Nichols, E.P. Evans et al. · Nature · 2002 · 1.5K citations

Life Sciences, Neuroscience, Chemical Kinetics +3

Breast Cancer Cell Lines Contain Functional Cancer Stem Cells with Metastatic Capacity and a Distinct Molecular Signature

Emmanuelle Charafe‐Jauffret, Christophe Ginestier, Flora Iovino et al. · Cancer Research · 2009 · 1.2K citations · Full text

Medicine, Cell Biology, Oncology +17

MDA-MB-435 cells are derived from M14 Melanoma cells––a loss for breast cancer, but a boon for melanoma research

James M. Rae, Chad J. Creighton, Jeanne Meck et al. · Breast Cancer Research and Treatment · 2006 · 374 citations

Veterinary Medicine, Cell Biology, Oncology +7

Bone marrow-derived cells fuse with normal and transformed intestinal stem cells

Adnan Z. Rizvi, John Swain, Paige S. Davies et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2006 · 273 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology +12

Aneuploidy vs. gene mutation hypothesis of cancer: Recent study claims mutation but is found to support aneuploidy

Ruhong Li, Arvind Sonik, Reinhard Stindl et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2000 · 258 citations

Natural Sciences, Genetics, Physics +10