Intratumoral heterogeneity in cancer progression and response to immunotherapy

I Vitale, E Shema, S Loi, L Galluzzi - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Most (if not all) tumors emerge and progress under a strong evolutionary pressure imposed
by trophic, metabolic, immunological, and therapeutic factors. The relative impact of these …

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 …

OLIG2 mediates a rare targetable stem cell fate transition in sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma

K Desai, S Wanggou, E Luis, H Whetstone… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
Functional cellular heterogeneity in tumours often underlies incomplete response to therapy
and relapse. Previously, we demonstrated that the growth of the paediatric brain …

Human cerebellar development and transcriptomics: implications for neurodevelopmental disorders

P Haldipur, KJ Millen, KA Aldinger - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Developmental abnormalities of the cerebellum are among the most recognized structural
brain malformations in human prenatal imaging. Yet reliable information regarding their …

Neoplastic and immune single-cell transcriptomics define subgroup-specific intra-tumoral heterogeneity of childhood medulloblastoma

KA Riemondy, S Venkataraman, N Willard… - Neuro …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Background Medulloblastoma (MB) is a heterogeneous disease in which neoplastic cells
and associated immune cells contribute to disease progression. We aimed to determine the …

Suppressing recurrence in Sonic Hedgehog subgroup medulloblastoma using the OLIG2 inhibitor CT-179

Y Li, C Lim, T Dismuke, DS Malawsky, S Oasa… - Nature …, 2025 - nature.com
OLIG2-expressing tumor stem cells have been shown to drive recurrence in Sonic
Hedgehog (SHH)-subgroup medulloblastoma (MB) and patients urgently need specific …

Trends and potential of machine learning and deep learning in drug study at single-cell level

R Qi, Q Zou - Research, 2023 - spj.science.org
Cancer treatments always face challenging problems, particularly drug resistance due to
tumor cell heterogeneity. The existing datasets include the relationship between gene …

Deconstructing sonic hedgehog medulloblastoma: molecular subtypes, drivers, and beyond

J Garcia-Lopez, R Kumar, KS Smith, PA Northcott - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
Medulloblastoma (MB) is a highly malignant cerebellar tumor predominantly diagnosed
during childhood. Driven by pathogenic activation of sonic hedgehog (SHH) signaling, SHH …

What are the applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in cancer research: a systematic review

L Li, F **ong, Y Wang, S Zhang, Z Gong, X Li… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a tool for studying gene expression at the
single-cell level that has been widely used due to its unprecedented high resolution. In the …

CAR T cells: engineered immune cells to treat brain cancers and beyond

Z Huang, S Dewanjee, P Chakraborty, NK Jha, A Dey… - Molecular cancer, 2023 - Springer
Malignant brain tumors rank among the most challenging type of malignancies to manage.
The current treatment protocol commonly entails surgery followed by radiotherapy and/or …