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David L. Spector publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David L. Spector sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 245 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

David L. Spector D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David L. Spector sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

David L. Spector is affiliated with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Surgery, Immunology, and Oncology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics including RNA Research and Splicing, Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research, RNA modifications and cancer, Cancer Genomics and Diagnostics, Bariatric Surgery and Outcomes, Immune cells in cancer, and Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Long non-coding RNAs: definitions, functions, challenges and recommendations (2023, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology)
  • Activating a collaborative innate-adaptive immune response to control metastasis (2021, Cancer Cell)
  • MALAT1 Long Non-Coding RNA: Functional Implications (2020, Non-Coding RNA)
  • Neutrophil extracellular traps formed during chemotherapy confer treatment resistance via TGF-β activation (2023, Cancer Cell)
  • Chronic stress increases metastasis via neutrophil-mediated changes to the microenvironment (2024, Cancer Cell)

Frequent co-authors of David L. Spector include:

  • Sonam Bhatia
  • David A. Tuveson
  • Bodu Liu
  • Suzanne Russo
  • John E. Wilkinson

The scientist has contributed publications to several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cancer Research
  • Cancer Cell
  • Nature Communications
  • Surgical Endoscopy

David L. Spector was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Long noncoding RNAs: functional surprises from the RNA world

    Jeremy E. Wilusz;Hongjae Sunwoo;David L. Spector

  • Rb-mediated heterochromatin formation and silencing of E2F target genes during cellular senescence.

    Masashi Narita;Sabrina Nuñez;Sabrina Nuñez;Edith Heard;Masako Narita

  • The Noncoding RNA MALAT1 Is a Critical Regulator of the Metastasis Phenotype of Lung Cancer Cells

    Tony Gutschner;Monika Hämmerle;Moritz Eißmann;Jeff Hsu

  • Nuclear speckles: a model for nuclear organelles.

    Angus I. Lamond;David L. Spector

  • Cells: a laboratory manual

    David L. Spector;Robert D. Goldman;Leslie A. Leinwand

  • A long nuclear-retained non-coding RNA regulates synaptogenesis by modulating gene expression.

    Delphine Bernard;Kannanganattu V Prasanth;Kannanganattu V Prasanth;Vidisha Tripathi;Sabrina Colasse

  • From silencing to gene expression: real-time analysis in single cells.

    Susan M Janicki;Toshiro Tsukamoto;Simone E Salghetti;William P Tansey

  • The dynamics of a pre-mRNA splicing factor in living cells.

    Tom Misteli;Javier F. Cáceres;David L. Spector

  • 3′ End Processing of a Long Nuclear-Retained Noncoding RNA Yields a tRNA-like Cytoplasmic RNA

    Jeremy E. Wilusz;Susan M. Freier;David L. Spector

  • Macromolecular domains within the cell nucleus.

    David L. Spector

  • Regulating Gene Expression through RNA Nuclear Retention

    Kannanganattu V. Prasanth;Supriya G. Prasanth;Zhenyu Xuan;Stephen Hearn

  • Biogenesis and function of nuclear bodies

    Yuntao S. Mao;Bin Zhang;David L. Spector

  • MEN ε/β nuclear-retained non-coding RNAs are up-regulated upon muscle differentiation and are essential components of paraspeckles

    Hongjae Sunwoo;Marcel E. Dinger;Jeremy E. Wilusz;Paulo P. Amaral

  • Beta-cell lines derived from transgenic mice expressing a hybrid insulin gene-oncogene

    Shimon Efrat;Susanne Linde;Hans Kofod;David Spector

  • Methylation of histone H3 at Lys-9 is an early mark on the X chromosome during X inactivation.

    Edith Heard;Claire Rougeulle;Danielle Arnaud;Philip Avner

  • Associations between distinct pre-mRNA splicing components and the cell nucleus.

    D. L. Spector;Xiang-Dong Fu;T. Maniatis

  • The lncRNA Malat1 is dispensable for mouse development but its transcription plays a cis-regulatory role in the adult.

    Bin Zhang;Gayatri Arun;Yuntao S. Mao;Zsolt Lazar

  • 53BP1 promotes non-homologous end joining of telomeres by increasing chromatin mobility

    Nadya Dimitrova;Yi-Chun M. Chen;David L. Spector;Titia de Lange

  • Identification of Nuclear Dicing Bodies Containing Proteins for MicroRNA Biogenesis in Living Arabidopsis Plants

    Yuda Fang;David L. Spector

  • Applications of the green fluorescent protein in cell biology and biotechnology

    Tom Misteli;David L. Spector

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert D. Goldman
Robert D. Goldman Northwestern University
Kannanganattu V. Prasanth
Kannanganattu V. Prasanth University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Roland Eils
Roland Eils Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Frank Rigo
Frank Rigo Ionis Pharmaceuticals (United States)
Adrian R. Krainer
Adrian R. Krainer Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
C. Frank Bennett
C. Frank Bennett Ionis Pharmaceuticals (United States)
Mark H. Ellisman
Mark H. Ellisman University of California, San Diego
Leslie A. Leinwand
Leslie A. Leinwand University of Colorado Boulder
Tom Misteli
Tom Misteli National Institutes of Health
Edith Heard
Edith Heard Collège de France

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