The emerging landscape of spatial profiling technologies

JR Moffitt, E Lundberg, H Heyn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Improved scale, multiplexing and resolution are establishing spatial nucleic acid and protein
profiling methods as a major pillar for cellular atlas building of complex samples, from …

Turning cold tumors hot: from molecular mechanisms to clinical applications

J Zhang, D Huang, PE Saw, E Song - Trends in immunology, 2022 - cell.com
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapies have achieved clinical benefit, but most
'immune-cold'solid tumors are not responsive. The diversity of immune evasion mechanisms …

Cancer cell states recur across tumor types and form specific interactions with the tumor microenvironment

D Barkley, R Moncada, M Pour, DA Liberman, I Dryg… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transcriptional heterogeneity among malignant cells of a tumor has been studied in
individual cancer types and shown to be organized into cancer cell states; however, it …

Clinical relevance of tumour-associated macrophages

MJ Pittet, O Michielin, D Migliorini - Nature reviews Clinical oncology, 2022 - nature.com
In the past decade, substantial advances have been made in understanding the biology of
tumour-associated macrophages (TAMs), and their clinical relevance is emerging. A …

Pan-cancer T cell atlas links a cellular stress response state to immunotherapy resistance

Y Chu, E Dai, Y Li, G Han, G Pei, DR Ingram… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
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 …

Single-cell and spatial analysis reveal interaction of FAP+ fibroblasts and SPP1+ macrophages in colorectal cancer

J Qi, H Sun, Y Zhang, Z Wang, Z Xun, Z Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is among the most common malignancies with limited treatments
other than surgery. The tumor microenvironment (TME) profiling enables the discovery of …

Benchmarking spatial and single-cell transcriptomics integration methods for transcript distribution prediction and cell type deconvolution

B Li, W Zhang, C Guo, H Xu, L Li, M Fang, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics approaches have substantially advanced our capacity to detect the
spatial distribution of RNA transcripts in tissues, yet it remains challenging to characterize …

Single‐cell RNA sequencing technologies and applications: A brief overview

D Jovic, X Liang, H Zeng, L Lin, F Xu… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq) technology has become the state‐of‐the‐art
approach for unravelling the heterogeneity and complexity of RNA transcripts within …

Resistance mechanisms to anti-PD cancer immunotherapy

MD Vesely, T Zhang, L Chen - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The transformative success of antibodies targeting the PD-1 (programmed death 1)/B7-H1
(B7 homolog 1) pathway (anti-PD therapy) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However …

Exploring tissue architecture using spatial transcriptomics

A Rao, D Barkley, GS França, I Yanai - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Deciphering the principles and mechanisms by which gene activity orchestrates complex
cellular arrangements in multicellular organisms has far-reaching implications for research …