Artificial intelligence in histopathology: enhancing cancer research and clinical oncology

A Shmatko, N Ghaffari Laleh, M Gerstung, JN Kather - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) methods have multiplied our capabilities to extract quantitative
information from digital histopathology images. AI is expected to reduce workload for human …

Exploring immunotherapy in colorectal cancer

J Weng, S Li, Z Zhu, Q Liu, R Zhang, Y Yang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2022 - Springer
Chemotherapy combined with or without targeted therapy is the fundamental treatment for
metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC). Due to the adverse effects of chemotherapeutic drugs …

ADAR1 masks the cancer immunotherapeutic promise of ZBP1-driven necroptosis

T Zhang, C Yin, A Fedorov, L Qiao, H Bao… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Only a small proportion of patients with cancer show lasting responses to immune
checkpoint blockade (ICB)-based monotherapies. The RNA-editing enzyme ADAR1 is an …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Conserved pan-cancer microenvironment subtypes predict response to immunotherapy

A Bagaev, N Kotlov, K Nomie, V Svekolkin, A Gafurov… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
The clinical use of molecular targeted therapy is rapidly evolving but has primarily focused
on genomic alterations. Transcriptomic analysis offers an opportunity to dissect the …

Endoplasmic reticulum stress: molecular mechanism and therapeutic targets

X Chen, C Shi, M He, S Xiong, X Xia - Signal transduction and targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) functions as a quality-control organelle for protein
homeostasis, or “proteostasis”. The protein quality control systems involve ER-associated …

[HTML][HTML] CXCR6 positions cytotoxic T cells to receive critical survival signals in the tumor microenvironment

M Di Pilato, R Kfuri-Rubens, JN Pruessmann, AJ Ozga… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses against tumors are maintained by stem-like
memory cells that self-renew but also give rise to effector-like cells. The latter gradually lose …

Mechanisms of immune activation and regulation: lessons from melanoma

S Kalaora, A Nagler, JA Wargo, Y Samuels - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Melanoma, a skin cancer that develops from pigment cells, has been studied intensively,
particularly in terms of the immune response to tumours, and has been used as a model for …

RAS-targeted therapies: is the undruggable drugged?

AR Moore, SC Rosenberg, F McCormick… - Nature reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract RAS (KRAS, NRAS and HRAS) is the most frequently mutated gene family in
cancers, and, consequently, investigators have sought an effective RAS inhibitor for more …

B cells and tertiary lymphoid structures promote immunotherapy response

BA Helmink, SM Reddy, J Gao, S Zhang, R Basar… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract Treatment with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) has revolutionized cancer
therapy. Until now, predictive biomarkers,,,,,,,,–and strategies to augment clinical response …