A game theory study supported by in vitro experimental data shows that drug treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer cells causes the cells to switch between evolutionary games they play among each other. Moreover, the work calls into question standard assumptions on the fitness costs of drug resistance to cancer cells.
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Staňková, K. Resistance games. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 336–337 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0785-y
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