Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in drug discovery and development

B Van de Sande, JS Lee, E Mutasa-Gottgens… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) methods,
together with associated computational tools and the growing availability of public data …

Organoid: Bridging the gap between basic research and clinical practice

G Weng, J Tao, Y Liu, J Qiu, D Su, R Wang, W Luo… - Cancer Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
Nowadays, the diagnosis and treatment system of malignant tumors has increasingly tended
to be more precise and personalized. And the existing tumor models are still unable to fully …

Dissecting the immune suppressive human prostate tumor microenvironment via integrated single-cell and spatial transcriptomic analyses

T Hirz, S Mei, H Sarkar, Y Kfoury, S Wu… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The treatment of low-risk primary prostate cancer entails active surveillance only, while high-
risk disease requires multimodal treatment including surgery, radiation therapy, and …

Ectopic JAK–STAT activation enables the transition to a stem-like and multilineage state conferring AR-targeted therapy resistance

S Deng, C Wang, Y Wang, Y Xu, X Li, NA Johnson… - Nature cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Emerging evidence indicates that various cancers can gain resistance to targeted therapies
by acquiring lineage plasticity. Although various genomic and transcriptomic aberrations …

Targeting myeloid chemotaxis to reverse prostate cancer therapy resistance

C Guo, A Sharp, B Gurel, M Crespo, I Figueiredo… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Inflammation is a hallmark of cancer. In patients with cancer, peripheral blood myeloid
expansion, indicated by a high neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio, associates with shorter …

Single-cell ATAC and RNA sequencing reveal pre-existing and persistent cells associated with prostate cancer relapse

S Taavitsainen, N Engedal, S Cao, F Handle… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prostate cancer is heterogeneous and patients would benefit from methods that stratify those
who are likely to respond to systemic therapy. Here, we employ single-cell assays for …

Anti-PD-1 immunotherapy with androgen deprivation therapy induces robust immune infiltration in metastatic castration-sensitive prostate cancer

JE Hawley, AZ Obradovic, MC Dallos, EA Lim… - Cancer cell, 2023 - cell.com
When compared to other malignancies, the tumor microenvironment (TME) of primary and
castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) is relatively devoid of immune infiltrates. While …

Club‐like cells in proliferative inflammatory atrophy of the prostate

FW Huang, H Song, HNW Weinstein… - The Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Club cells are a type of bronchiolar epithelial cell that serve a protective role in the lung and
regenerate damaged lung epithelium. Single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq) of young …

Ion current rectification-nanopipette technique for single-cell analysis

YT Xu, YF Ruan, TY Zhang, XM Shi, HY Wang… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-cell analysis (SCA) could provide in-depth understanding of cell biology yet is of
great challenge. Many attempts have been made to develop novel techniques for SCA …

Appearance of tuft cells during prostate cancer progression

K Vlajic, H Pennington Kluger, W Bie, BJ Merrill… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Tuft cells are chemosensory epithelial cells that increase in number following infection or
injury to robustly activate the innate immune response to alleviate or promote disease …