Towards targeting the breast cancer immune microenvironment

MA Harris, P Savas, B Virassamy… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
The tumour immune microenvironment is shaped by the crosstalk between cancer cells,
immune cells, fibroblasts, endothelial cells and other stromal components. Although the …

Advances in single-cell RNA sequencing and its applications in cancer research

D Huang, N Ma, X Li, Y Gou, Y Duan, B Liu… - Journal of hematology & …, 2023‏ - Springer
Cancers are a group of heterogeneous diseases characterized by the acquisition of
functional capabilities during the transition from a normal to a neoplastic state. Powerful …

High-plex imaging of RNA and proteins at subcellular resolution in fixed tissue by spatial molecular imaging

S He, R Bhatt, C Brown, EA Brown, DL Buhr… - Nature …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Resolving the spatial distribution of RNA and protein in tissues at subcellular resolution is a
challenge in the field of spatial biology. We describe spatial molecular imaging, a system …

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 …

To metabolomics and beyond: a technological portfolio to investigate cancer metabolism

F Danzi, R Pacchiana, A Mafficini, MT Scupoli… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023‏ - nature.com
Tumour cells have exquisite flexibility in reprogramming their metabolism in order to support
tumour initiation, progression, metastasis and resistance to therapies. These reprogrammed …

A single‐cell RNA expression atlas of normal, preneoplastic and tumorigenic states in the human breast

B Pal, Y Chen, F Vaillant, BD Capaldo, R Joyce… - The EMBO …, 2021‏ - embopress.org
To examine global changes in breast heterogeneity across different states, we determined
the single‐cell transcriptomes of> 340,000 cells encompassing normal breast, preneoplastic …

Construction of a human cell landscape at single-cell level

X Han, Z Zhou, L Fei, H Sun, R Wang, Y Chen, H Chen… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Single-cell analysis is a valuable tool for dissecting cellular heterogeneity in complex
systems. However, a comprehensive single-cell atlas has not been achieved for humans …

Linking EMT programmes to normal and neoplastic epithelial stem cells

AW Lambert, RA Weinberg - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2021‏ - nature.com
Epithelial stem cells serve critical physiological functions in the generation, maintenance
and repair of diverse tissues through their ability to self-renew and spawn more specialized …

EMT/MET plasticity in cancer and Go-or-Grow decisions in quiescence: the two sides of the same coin?

A Akhmetkaliyev, N Alibrahim, D Shafiee, E Tulchinsky - Molecular cancer, 2023‏ - Springer
Epithelial mesenchymal transition (EMT) and mesenchymal epithelial transition (MET) are
genetic determinants of cellular plasticity. These programs operate in physiological …

Single-cell atlases: shared and tissue-specific cell types across human organs

R Elmentaite, C Domínguez Conde, L Yang… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
The development of single-cell and spatial transcriptomics methods was instrumental in the
conception of the Human Cell Atlas initiative, which aims to generate an integrated map of …