Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

Integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to elucidate intercellular tissue dynamics

SK Longo, MG Guo, AL Ji, PA Khavari - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) identifies cell subpopulations within tissue but
does not capture their spatial distribution nor reveal local networks of intercellular …

scGPT: toward building a foundation model for single-cell multi-omics using generative AI

H Cui, C Wang, H Maan, K Pang, F Luo, N Duan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Generative pretrained models have achieved remarkable success in various domains such
as language and computer vision. Specifically, the combination of large-scale diverse …

Large-scale foundation model on single-cell transcriptomics

M Hao, J Gong, X Zeng, C Liu, Y Guo, X Cheng… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Large pretrained models have become foundation models leading to breakthroughs in
natural language processing and related fields. Develo** foundation models for …

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 …

Cell type and gene expression deconvolution with BayesPrism enables Bayesian integrative analysis across bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing in oncology

T Chu, Z Wang, D Pe'er, CG Danko - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Inferring single-cell compositions and their contributions to global gene expression changes
from bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) datasets is a major challenge in oncology. Here we …

Transformer for one stop interpretable cell type annotation

J Chen, H Xu, W Tao, Z Chen, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Consistent annotation transfer from reference dataset to query dataset is fundamental to the
development and reproducibility of single-cell research. Compared with traditional …

Functional, metabolic and transcriptional maturation of human pancreatic islets derived from stem cells

D Balboa, T Barsby, V Lithovius, J Saarimäki-Vire… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Transplantation of pancreatic islet cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells is a
promising treatment for diabetes. Despite progress in the generation of stem-cell-derived …

Map** single-cell data to reference atlases by transfer learning

M Lotfollahi, M Naghipourfar, MD Luecken… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Large single-cell atlases are now routinely generated to serve as references for analysis of
smaller-scale studies. Yet learning from reference data is complicated by batch effects …