Profiling cell identity and tissue architecture with single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

GS Gulati, JP D'Silva, Y Liu, L Wang… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics has broadened our understanding of cellular diversity and gene
expression dynamics in healthy and diseased tissues. Recently, spatial transcriptomics has …

Spatiotemporal omics for biology and medicine

L Liu, A Chen, Y Li, J Mulder, H Heyn, X Xu - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
The completion of the Human Genome Project has provided a foundational blueprint for
understanding human life. Nonetheless, understanding the intricate mechanisms through …

High-throughput identification of repurposable neuroactive drugs with potent anti-glioblastoma activity

S Lee, T Weiss, M Bühler, J Mena, Z Lottenbach… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Glioblastoma, the most aggressive primary brain cancer, has a dismal prognosis, yet
systemic treatment is limited to DNA-alkylating chemotherapies. New therapeutic strategies …

Spatial single-cell isotope tracing reveals heterogeneity of de novo fatty acid synthesis in cancer

E Buglakova, M Ekelöf, M Schwaiger-Haber… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
While heterogeneity is a key feature of cancer, understanding metabolic heterogeneity at the
single-cell level remains a challenge. Here we present 13C-SpaceM, a method for spatial …

Targeting axonal guidance dependencies in glioblastoma with ROBO1 CAR T cells

CR Chokshi, MV Shaikh, B Brakel, MA Rossotti… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Resistance to genotoxic therapies and tumor recurrence are hallmarks of glioblastoma
(GBM), an aggressive brain tumor. In this study, we investigated functional drivers of post …

Cancer cell states: Lessons from ten years of single-cell RNA-sequencing of human tumors

I Tirosh, ML Suva - Cancer Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Human tumors are intricate ecosystems composed of diverse genetic clones and malignant
cell states that evolve in a complex tumor micro-environment. Single-cell RNA-sequencing …

Glioblastoma is spatially organized by neurodevelopmental programs and a glial-like wound healing response

A Mossi Albiach, J Janusauskas, I Kapustová… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Glioblastoma is the deadliest brain cancer, characterized by great cellular diversity and
unique histology. To understand the spatial organization of transcriptional cell states, we …

Spatial analysis of recurrent glioblastoma reveals perivascular niche organization

U Onubogu, CD Gatenbee, S Prabhakaran… - JCI …, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tumor evolution is driven by genetic variation; however, it is the tumor microenvironment
(TME) that provides the selective pressure contributing to evolution in cancer. Despite high …

Advancing precision medicine in gliomas through single-cell sequencing: unveiling the complex tumor microenvironment

J Li, Y Zhang, C Liang, X Yan, X Hui… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Glioblastoma (GBM) displays an infiltrative growth characteristic that recruits neighboring
normal cells to facilitate tumor growth, maintenance, and invasion into the brain. While the …

Adaptations of neutrophils in cancer

M Ng, D Cerezo-Wallis, LG Ng, A Hidalgo - Immunity, 2025 - cell.com
There is a renewed interest in neutrophil biology, largely instigated by their prominence in
cancer. From an immunologist's perspective, a conceptual breakthrough is the realization …