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August 3, 2023 / Cancer Med
Heterogeneous tumor microenvironment in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: An emerging role of single-cell analysis
Background: Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the deadliest malignancies in the world, for which the mortality is almost as high as the disease incidence and is predicted to…
July 26, 2023 / Nat Commun
Macrophage and neutrophil heterogeneity at single-cell spatial resolution in human inflammatory bowel disease
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases with perplexing heterogeneity in disease manifestation and response to treatment. While the molecular basis for this heterogeneity remains uncharacterized, single-cell…
July 24, 2023 / Nat Microbiol
Understanding virus-host interactions in tissues
Although virus-host interactions are usually studied in a single cell type using in vitro assays in immortalized cell lines or isolated cell populations, it is important to remember that what…
July 18, 2023 / Brief Bioinform
RNA trafficking and subcellular localization-a review of mechanisms, experimental and predictive methodologies
RNA localization is essential for regulating spatial translation, where RNAs are trafficked to their target locations via various biological mechanisms. In this review, we discuss RNA localization in the context…
July 13, 2023 / J Pharm Anal
Promise of spatially resolved omics for tumor research
Tumors are spatially heterogeneous tissues that comprise numerous cell types with intricate structures. By interacting with the microenvironment, tumor cells undergo dynamic changes in gene expression and metabolism, resulting in…
July 3, 2023 / Nat Aging
Spatial mapping of cellular senescence: emerging challenges and opportunities
Cellular senescence is a well-established driver of aging and age-related diseases. There are many challenges to mapping senescent cells in tissues such as the absence of specific markers and their…
June 30, 2023 / Clin Cancer Res
Trackable Intratumor Microdosing and Spatial Profiling Provide Early Insights into Activity of Investigational Agents in the Intact Tumor Microenvironment
Purpose: Cancer drug development is currently limited by a paradigm of preclinical evaluation that does not adequately recapitulate the complexity of the intact human tumor microenvironment (TME). To overcome this,…
May 31, 2023 / Biomark Res
Single-cell technologies in multiple myeloma: new insights into disease pathogenesis and translational implications
Multiple myeloma (MM) is a hematological malignancy characterized by clonal proliferation of plasma cells. Although therapeutic advances have been made to improve clinical outcomes and to prolong patients’ survival in…
May 31, 2023 / Innovation Life
Spatial transcriptomics in cancer research: Opportunities and challenges
Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies can be divided into two categories, depending on the strategies used to measure transcripts: imaging-based and sequencing-based technologies. Imaging-based ST technologies employ microscopy to detect transcripts…
May 29, 2023 / Nat Med
Pan-cancer T cell atlas links a cellular stress response state to immunotherapy resistance
Tumor-infiltrating T cells offer a promising avenue for cancer treatment, yet their states remain to be fully characterized. Here we present a single-cell atlas of T cells from 308,048 transcriptomes…
May 23, 2023 / Front Oncol
Could the tumor-associated microbiota be the new multi-faceted player in the tumor microenvironment?
Microorganisms have been identified in tumor specimens for over a century. It is only in recent years that tumor-associated microbiota has become a rapidly expanding field. Assessment techniques encompass methods…
May 22, 2023 / Front Oncol
Multiomics technologies for comprehensive tumor microenvironment analysis in triple-negative breast cancer under neoadjuvant chemotherapy
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the most aggressive breast cancer subtypes and is characterized by abundant infiltrating immune cells within the microenvironment. As standard care, chemotherapy remains the…