ArticleiScience2026
Universal principles of cell population growth follow from local contact inhibition.
Article in iScience, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Spatial interactions modulate tumor growth and immune infiltration.NPJ systems biology and applications · 2024Article
- Spatial interactions modulate tumor growth and immune infiltration.Research square · 2024Article
- Spatial interactions modulate tumor growth and immune infiltration.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- J-SPACE: a Julia package for the simulation of spatial models of cancer evolution and of sequencing experiments.BMC bioinformatics · 2022Article
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Cancer cell populations often exhibit remarkably similar growth laws despite their heterogeneity. Explanations of universal cell population growth remain partly unresolved to this day. Here, we present a growth-law unification by investigating the connection between the microscopic assumptions that affect the expected contact inhibition leading to five classical tumor growth laws: exponential, radial growth, fractal growth, generalized logistic, and Gompertzian growth. All five can be seen as manifestations of a single microscopic model. Agent-based simulations substantiate our theory, and we can explain differences in growth curves in experimental data from
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