Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics

K Vandereyken, A Sifrim, B Thienpont… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The joint analysis of the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome and/or metabolome
from single cells is transforming our understanding of cell biology in health and disease. In …

Primary brain tumours in adults

MJ Van den Bent, M Geurts, PJ French, M Smits… - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
The most frequent adult-type primary CNS tumours are diffuse gliomas, but a large variety of
rarer CNS tumour types exists. The classification of these tumours is increasingly based on …

Hallmarks of transcriptional intratumour heterogeneity across a thousand tumours

A Gavish, M Tyler, AC Greenwald, R Hoefflin, D Simkin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Each tumour contains diverse cellular states that underlie intratumour heterogeneity (ITH), a
central challenge of cancer therapeutics. Dozens of recent studies have begun to describe …

Immune checkpoint blockade in glioblastoma: from tumor heterogeneity to personalized treatment

VA Arrieta, C Dmello, DJ McGrail, DJ Brat… - The Journal of clinical …, 2023 - jci.org
Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized modern cancer therapy, arousing
great interest in the neuro-oncology community. While several reports show that subsets of …

Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

Hypoxic niches attract and sequester tumor-associated macrophages and cytotoxic T cells and reprogram them for immunosuppression

A Sattiraju, S Kang, B Giotti, Z Chen, VJ Marallano… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Glioblastoma (GBM), a highly lethal brain cancer, is notorious for immunosuppression, but
the mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we documented a temporospatial patterning of tumor …

Decoding the tumor microenvironment with spatial technologies

LA Walsh, DF Quail - Nature immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Visualization of the cellular heterogeneity and spatial architecture of the tumor
microenvironment (TME) is becoming increasingly important to understand mechanisms of …

A prognostic neural epigenetic signature in high-grade glioma

R Drexler, R Khatri, T Sauvigny, M Mohme, CL Maire… - Nature Medicine, 2024 - nature.com
Neural–tumor interactions drive glioma growth as evidenced in preclinical models, but
clinical validation is limited. We present an epigenetically defined neural signature of …