Impact of the Human Cell Atlas on medicine

JE Rood, A Maartens, A Hupalowska, SA Teichmann… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell atlases promise to provide a 'missing link'between genes, diseases and
therapies. By identifying the specific cell types, states, programs and contexts where disease …

Lung adenocarcinoma promotion by air pollutants

W Hill, EL Lim, CE Weeden, C Lee, M Augustine… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
A complete understanding of how exposure to environmental substances promotes cancer
formation is lacking. More than 70 years ago, tumorigenesis was proposed to occur in a two …

Histopathologic and proteogenomic heterogeneity reveals features of clear cell renal cell carcinoma aggressiveness

Y Li, TSM Lih, SM Dhanasekaran, R Mannan, L Chen… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Clear cell renal cell carcinomas (ccRCCs) represent∼ 75% of RCC cases and account for
most RCC-associated deaths. Inter-and intratumoral heterogeneity (ITH) results in varying …

Map** the temporal and spatial dynamics of the human endometrium in vivo and in vitro

L Garcia-Alonso, LF Handfield, K Roberts… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The endometrium, the mucosal lining of the uterus, undergoes dynamic changes throughout
the menstrual cycle in response to ovarian hormones. We have generated dense single-cell …

Single-cell transcriptomics reveals a distinct developmental state of KMT2A-rearranged infant B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia

E Khabirova, L Jardine, THH Coorens, S Webb… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract KMT2A-rearranged infant ALL is an aggressive childhood leukemia with poor
prognosis. Here, we investigated the developmental state of KMT2A-rearranged infant B-cell …

Diagnostic classification of childhood cancer using multiscale transcriptomics

F Comitani, JO Nash, S Cohen-Gogo, AI Chang… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
The causes of pediatric cancers' distinctiveness compared to adult-onset tumors of the same
type are not completely clear and not fully explained by their genomes. In this study, we …

Somatic mutations and single-cell transcriptomes reveal the root of malignant rhabdoid tumours

L Custers, E Khabirova, THH Coorens… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Malignant rhabdoid tumour (MRT) is an often lethal childhood cancer that, like many
paediatric tumours, is thought to arise from aberrant fetal development. The embryonic root …

The tumor microenvironment and immune targeting therapy in pediatric renal tumors

AB Hont, B Dumont, KS Sutton… - Pediatric blood & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This review highlights the role of several immunomodulating elements contributing to the
tumor microenvironment of various pediatric renal tumors including Wilms tumor. The roles …

Scalable querying of human cell atlases via a foundational model reveals commonalities across fibrosis-associated macrophages

G Heimberg, T Kuo, D DePianto, T Heigl, N Diamant… - BioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Single-cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) studies have profiled over 100 million human cells across
diseases, developmental stages, and perturbations to date. A singular view of this vast and …

Deep learning exploration of single-cell and spatially resolved cancer transcriptomics to unravel tumour heterogeneity

R Halawani, M Buchert, YPP Chen - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Tumour heterogeneity is one of the critical confounding aspects in decoding tumour growth.
Malignant cells display variations in their gene transcription profiles and mutation spectra …