Single-cell RNA sequencing in cancer: Applications, advances, and emerging challenges

G Sun, Z Li, D Rong, H Zhang, X Shi, W Yang… - Molecular Therapy …, 2021 - cell.com
Cancer has become one of the greatest threats to human health, and new technologies are
urgently needed to further clarify the mechanisms of cancer so that better detection and …

Polyploid giant cancer cells and ovarian cancer: new insights into mitotic regulators and polyploidy

JAS Richards, NR Candelaria… - Biology of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Current first-line treatment of patients with high-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC)
involves the use of cytotoxic drugs that frequently lead to recurrent tumors exhibiting …

Benchmark and parameter sensitivity analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing clustering methods

M Krzak, Y Raykov, A Boukouvalas, L Cutillo… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Single-cell RNA-seq (scRNAseq) is a powerful tool to study heterogeneity of cells. Recently,
several clustering based methods have been proposed to identify distinct cell populations …

[HTML][HTML] Adult human glioblastomas harbor radial glia-like cells

R Wang, R Sharma, X Shen, AM Laughney, K Funato… - Stem Cell Reports, 2020 - cell.com
Radial glia (RG) cells are the first neural stem cells to appear during embryonic
development. Adult human glioblastomas harbor a subpopulation of RG-like cells with …

Out of step societal and Darwinian adaptation during evolution is the cause of multiple women's health issues

Z Pei, W Lu, Y Feng, C Xu, AJW Hsueh - Human Reproduction, 2022 - academic.oup.com
During human evolution, major changes in our societal conditions and environment took
place without sufficient time for concomitant genetic alterations, leading to out of step …

Applying single-cell analysis to gonadogenesis and DSDs (Disorders/Differences of Sex Development)

MA Estermann, CA Smith - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The gonads are unique among the body's organs in having a developmental choice: testis
or ovary formation. Gonadal sex differentiation involves common progenitor cells that form …

[HTML][HTML] Reproductive toxicity of DDT in the Japanese medaka fish model: Revisiting the impacts of DDT+ on female reproductive health

JM Cossaboon, SJ Teh, KE Sant - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
The organochlorine pesticide dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is an endocrine-
disrupting compound (EDC) that has been banned by most countries for decades. However …

Cancer cell immune mimicry delineates onco-immunologic modulation

R Gao, B He, Q Huang, Z Wang, M Yan, EWF Lam… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
Immune transcripts are essential for depicting onco-immunologic interactions. However,
whether cancer cells mimic immune transcripts to reprogram onco-immunologic interaction …

VSELs and OSCs together sustain oogenesis in adult ovaries and their dysfunction results in age-related senescence, PCOS, POI and cancer

D Bhartiya, D Sharma - Journal of ovarian research, 2023 - Springer
Multiple studies using single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) have failed to detect stem
cells in adult ovaries. We have maintained that two populations of ovarian stem cells …

Cell population characterization and discovery using single-cell technologies in endocrine systems

LYM Cheung, K Rizzoti - Journal of Molecular Endocrinology, 2020 - jme.bioscientifica.com
In the last 15 years, single-cell technologies have become robust and indispensable tools to
investigate cell heterogeneity. Beyond transcriptomic, genomic and epigenome analyses …