From patterns to patients: Advances in clinical machine learning for cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment

K Swanson, E Wu, A Zhang, AA Alizadeh, J Zou - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Machine learning (ML) is increasingly used in clinical oncology to diagnose cancers, predict
patient outcomes, and inform treatment planning. Here, we review recent applications of ML …

The diversification of methods for studying cell–cell interactions and communication

E Armingol, HM Baghdassarian, NE Lewis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
No cell lives in a vacuum, and the molecular interactions between cells define most
phenotypes. Transcriptomics provides rich information to infer cell–cell interactions and …

Mechanisms of resistance to oncogenic KRAS inhibition in pancreatic cancer

J Dilly, MT Hoffman, L Abbassi, Z Li, F Paradiso… - Cancer …, 2024 - aacrjournals.org
KRAS inhibitors demonstrate clinical efficacy in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC);
however, resistance is common. Among patients with KRAS G12C-mutant PDAC treated …

Tutorial: integrative computational analysis of bulk RNA-sequencing data to characterize tumor immunity using RIMA

L Yang, J Wang, J Altreuter, A Jhaveri, CJ Wong… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) has become an increasingly cost-effective technique
for molecular profiling and immune characterization of tumors. In the past decade, many …

Big data in basic and translational cancer research

P Jiang, S Sinha, K Aldape, S Hannenhalli… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Historically, the primary focus of cancer research has been molecular and clinical studies of
a few essential pathways and genes. Recent years have seen the rapid accumulation of …

Loss of tumor suppressors promotes inflammatory tumor microenvironment and enhances LAG3+ T cell mediated immune suppression

S Zahraeifard, Z Xiao, JY So, A Ahad… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Low response rate, treatment relapse, and resistance remain key challenges for cancer
treatment with immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). Here we report that loss of specific tumor …

Immune resistance mechanisms and the road to personalized immunotherapy

M Piper, H Kluger, E Ruppin… - American Society of …, 2023 - ascopubs.org
Despite decades of clinical and preclinical studies, the markers and mechanisms of
resistance to cancer immunotherapy, particularly immune checkpoint blockade (ICB), remain …

Discovery of targets for immune–metabolic antitumor drugs identifies estrogen-related receptor alpha

A Sahu, X Wang, P Munson, JPG Klomp, X Wang… - Cancer discovery, 2023 - AACR
Drugs that kill tumors through multiple mechanisms have the potential for broad clinical
benefits. Here, we first developed an in silico multiomics approach (BipotentR) to find cancer …

Heterogeneity‐induced NGF‐NGFR communication inefficiency promotes mitotic spindle disorganization in exhausted T cells through PREX1 suppression to impair …

X Wang, T Yang, S Shi, C Xu, F Wang, D Dai… - Cancer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background The mechanism of decreased T cells infiltrating tumor tissues in hepatocellular
carcinoma is poorly understood. Methods Cells were separated from the single‐cell RNA …

Challenges and perspectives in computational deconvolution of genomics data

LX Garmire, Y Li, Q Huang, C Xu, SA Teichmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Deciphering cell-type heterogeneity is crucial for systematically understanding tissue
homeostasis and its dysregulation in diseases. Computational deconvolution is an efficient …