Museum of spatial transcriptomics

L Moses, L Pachter - Nature methods, 2022 - nature.com
The function of many biological systems, such as embryos, liver lobules, intestinal villi, and
tumors, depends on the spatial organization of their cells. In the past decade, high …

Spatial omics and multiplexed imaging to explore cancer biology

SM Lewis, ML Asselin-Labat, Q Nguyen, J Berthelet… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding intratumoral heterogeneity—the molecular variation among cells within a
tumor—promises to address outstanding questions in cancer biology and improve the …

Landscape of prostate-specific membrane antigen heterogeneity and regulation in AR-positive and AR-negative metastatic prostate cancer

MK Bakht, Y Yamada, SY Ku, VB Venkadakrishnan… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Tumor expression of prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) is lost in 15–20% of men
with castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC), yet the underlying mechanisms remain …

Clinical application of advanced multi-omics tumor profiling: Shaping precision oncology of the future

D Akhoundova, MA Rubin - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Next-generation DNA sequencing technology has dramatically advanced clinical oncology
through the identification of therapeutic targets and molecular biomarkers, leading to the …

The spatial transcriptomic landscape of non-small cell lung cancer brain metastasis

Q Zhang, R Abdo, C Iosef, T Kaneko… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Brain metastases (BrMs) are a common occurrence in lung cancer with a dismal outcome.
To understand the mechanism of metastasis to inform prognosis and treatment, here we …

Cross-talk between cancer stem cells and immune cells: potential therapeutic targets in the tumor immune microenvironment

B Wu, X Shi, M Jiang, H Liu - Molecular Cancer, 2023 - Springer
Ongoing research has revealed that the existence of cancer stem cells (CSCs) is one of the
biggest obstacles in the current cancer therapy. CSCs make an influential function in tumor …

Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance

S Deng, C Wang, Y Wang, Y Xu, X Li, NA Johnson… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging evidence indicates that various cancers can gain resistance to targeted therapies
by acquiring lineage plasticity. Although various genomic and transcriptomic aberrations …

The transcriptional and epigenetic landscape of cancer cell lineage plasticity

A Davies, A Zoubeidi, H Beltran, LA Selth - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Lineage plasticity, a process whereby cells change their phenotype to take on a different
molecular and/or histologic identity, is a key driver of cancer progression and therapy …

Notch signaling suppresses neuroendocrine differentiation and alters the immune microenvironment in advanced prostate cancer

SY Ku, Y Wang, MM Garcia, Y Yamada, K Mizuno… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - jci.org
Notch signaling can have either an oncogenic or tumor-suppressive function in cancer
depending on the cancer type and cellular context. While Notch can be oncogenic in early …

Spatial omics: Navigating to the golden era of cancer research

Y Wu, Y Cheng, X Wang, J Fan… - Clinical and Translational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The idea that tumour microenvironment (TME) is organised in a spatial manner will not
surprise many cancer biologists; however, systematically capturing spatial architecture of …