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The Human Tumor Atlas Network: Charting Tumor Transitions across Space and Time at Single-Cell Resolution
- Source :
- Cell
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2020.
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Abstract
- Crucial transitions in cancer-including tumor initiation, local expansion, metastasis, and therapeutic resistance-involve complex interactions between cells within the dynamic tumor ecosystem. Transformative single-cell genomics technologies and spatial multiplex in situ methods now provide an opportunity to interrogate this complexity at unprecedented resolution. The Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN), part of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Moonshot Initiative, will establish a clinical, experimental, computational, and organizational framework to generate informative and accessible three-dimensional atlases of cancer transitions for a diverse set of tumor types. This effort complements both ongoing efforts to map healthy organs and previous large-scale cancer genomics approaches focused on bulk sequencing at a single point in time. Generating single-cell, multiparametric, longitudinal atlases and integrating them with clinical outcomes should help identify novel predictive biomarkers and features as well as therapeutically relevant cell types, cell states, and cellular interactions across transitions. The resulting tumor atlases should have a profound impact on our understanding of cancer biology and have the potential to improve cancer detection, prevention, and therapeutic discovery for better precision-medicine treatments of cancer patients and those at risk for cancer.
- Subjects :
- Cell
Genomics
Computational biology
Tumor initiation
Biology
Article
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Metastasis
03 medical and health sciences
Atlases as Topic
0302 clinical medicine
Neoplasms
Tumor Microenvironment
medicine
Humans
Precision Medicine
030304 developmental biology
0303 health sciences
Atlas (topology)
Cancer
medicine.disease
3. Good health
Human tumor
Cell Transformation, Neoplastic
medicine.anatomical_structure
Single-Cell Analysis
Single point
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00928674
- Volume :
- 181
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Cell
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d2ea82738e14282269df985158663c08