The history and advances in cancer immunotherapy: understanding the characteristics of tumor-infiltrating immune cells and their therapeutic implications

Y Zhang, Z Zhang - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment and rejuvenated the field of tumor
immunology. Several types of immunotherapy, including adoptive cell transfer (ACT) and …

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 …

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 …

The emerging landscape of spatial profiling technologies

JR Moffitt, E Lundberg, H Heyn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Improved scale, multiplexing and resolution are establishing spatial nucleic acid and protein
profiling methods as a major pillar for cellular atlas building of complex samples, from …

Whole-cell segmentation of tissue images with human-level performance using large-scale data annotation and deep learning

NF Greenwald, G Miller, E Moen, A Kong, A Kagel… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A principal challenge in the analysis of tissue imaging data is cell segmentation—the task of
identifying the precise boundary of every cell in an image. To address this problem we …

Resistance mechanisms to anti-PD cancer immunotherapy

MD Vesely, T Zhang, L Chen - Annual review of immunology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The transformative success of antibodies targeting the PD-1 (programmed death 1)/B7-H1
(B7 homolog 1) pathway (anti-PD therapy) has revolutionized cancer treatment. However …

Spatial omics and multiplexed imaging to explore cancer biology

SM Lewis, ML Asselin-Labat, Q Nguyen, J Berthelet… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding intratumoral heterogeneity—the molecular variation among cells within a
tumor—promises to address outstanding questions in cancer biology and improve the …

Single-cell proteomics enabled by next-generation sequencing or mass spectrometry

HM Bennett, W Stephenson, CM Rose, S Darmanis - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
In the last decade, single-cell RNA sequencing routinely performed on large numbers of
single cells has greatly advanced our understanding of the underlying heterogeneity of …

Squidpy: a scalable framework for spatial omics analysis

G Palla, H Spitzer, M Klein, D Fischer, AC Schaar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial omics data are advancing the study of tissue organization and cellular
communication at an unprecedented scale. Flexible tools are required to store, integrate and …

Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

D Lähnemann, J Köster, E Szczurek, DJ McCarthy… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …