Systems immunology spanning tumors, lymph nodes, and periphery

DN Sidiropoulos, WJ Ho, EM Jaffee, LT Kagohara… - Cell Reports …, 2023 - cell.com
The immune system defines a complex network of tissues and cell types that orchestrate
responses across the body in a dynamic manner. The local and systemic interactions …

Complementing cell taxonomies with a multicellular analysis of tissues

RO Ramirez Flores, PSL Schäfer, L Küchenhoff… - …, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
The application of single-cell molecular profiling coupled with spatial technologies has
enabled charting of cellular heterogeneity in reference tissues and in disease. This new …

[HTML][HTML] Informing virtual clinical trials of hepatocellular carcinoma with spatial multi-omics analysis of a human neoadjuvant immunotherapy clinical trial

S Zhang, A Deshpande, BK Verma, H Wang, H Mi… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Human clinical trials are important tools to advance novel systemic therapies improve
treatment outcomes for cancer patients. The few durable treatment options have led to a …

Magnetic Resonance Imaging–Based Assessment of Pancreatic Fat Strongly Correlates With Histology-Based Assessment of Pancreas Composition

AL Kiemen, M Dbouk, E Abou Diwan, A Forjaz… - Pancreas, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Objective The aim of the study is to assess the relationship between magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI)-based estimation of pancreatic fat and histology-based measurement of …

High‐Resolution 3D Printing of Pancreatic Ductal Microanatomy Enabled by Serial Histology

AL Kiemen, A Forjaz, R Sousa, KS Han… - Advanced Materials …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a deadly cancer that can develop from
pancreatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PanIN), a microscopic lesion in the pancreatic ductal …

Mapping the topography of spatial gene expression with interpretable deep learning

U Chitra, BJ Arnold, H Sarkar, C Ma… - … on Research in …, 2024 - Springer
Spatially resolved transcriptomics technologies provide high-throughput measurements of
gene expression in a tissue slice, but the sparsity of this data complicates the analysis of …

Inferring cellular and molecular processes in single-cell data with non-negative matrix factorization using Python, R and GenePattern Notebook implementations of …

JAI Johnson, AP Tsang, JT Mitchell, DL Zhou… - Nature protocols, 2023 - nature.com
Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is an unsupervised learning method well suited to
high-throughput biology. However, inferring biological processes from an NMF result still …

Differential gene expression analysis of spatial transcriptomic experiments using spatial mixed models

OE Ospina, AC Soupir, R Manjarres-Betancur… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics (ST) assays represent a revolution in how the architecture of tissues
is studied by allowing for the exploration of cells in their spatial context. A common element …

Computational methods and biomarker discovery strategies for spatial proteomics: a review in immuno-oncology

H Mi, S Sivagnanam, WJ Ho, S Zhang… - Briefings in …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Advancements in imaging technologies have revolutionized our ability to deeply profile
pathological tissue architectures, generating large volumes of imaging data with …

Integration of Clinical Trial Spatial Multi-omics Analysis and Virtual Clinical Trials Enables Immunotherapy Response Prediction and Biomarker Discovery

S Zhang, A Deshpande, BK Verma, H Wang, H Mi… - Cancer Research, 2024 - AACR
Computational methods that simulate tumors mathematically to describe cellular and
molecular interactions are emerging as promising tools to simulate the impact of therapy …