In Vivo AAV-SB-CRISPR Screens of Tumor-Infiltrating Primary NK Cells Identify Genetic Checkpoints of CAR-NK Therapy

AAV-SB-CRISPR Screening Identifies Genetic Checkpoints in Tumor-Infiltrating Primary Natural Killer Cells for CAR-NK Therapy With the rapid advancement of biotechnology and gene editing technologies, increasing attention is being paid to enhancing the clinical potential of natural killer (NK) cells in cancer therapy. Despite their potential in clin...

Mapping Variant Effects on Anti-tumor Hallmarks of Primary Human T Cells with Base-Editing Screens

Mapping Variant Effects on Anti-tumor Hallmarks of Primary Human T Cells with Base-Editing Screens

Application of Base Editing Screening Technology in Tumor Immunotherapy T Cell Research Immune cell therapies, such as T cell transfer therapy and CAR T cell therapy, have become important clinical cancer treatment tools in certain disease fields. However, most cancer patients fail to benefit from cell therapies, possibly due to inherent changes in...

Programming Tumor Evolution with Selection Gene Drives to Proactively Combat Drug Resistance

Engineering Selective Gene Drives to Steer Tumor Evolution to Counteract Drug Resistance As tumors evolve, targeted therapies against cancer often fail due to the evolution of drug resistance. This study demonstrates a way to manipulate tumor evolution repeatedly to design therapeutic opportunities, even in the presence of genetic heterogeneity. We...

Tracking-seq Reveals the Heterogeneity of Off-target Effects in CRISPR-Cas9-mediated Genome Editing

Transcriptomics Technology Tracking-Seq Reveals Off-Target Effect Heterogeneity Mediated by CRISPR-Cas9 Research Background With the rapid development of genome editing technologies, the CRISPR-Cas9 system has been widely used in biomedical research due to its high efficiency and ease of operation. However, a significant issue with the CRISPR-Cas9 ...

Strain Tracking in Complex Microbiomes Using Synteny Analysis Reveals Per-Species Modes of Evolution

Using Genome Synteny Analysis for Strain Tracking in Complex Microbiomes Reveals Species-Specific Evolutionary Patterns Background Microbial populations differentiate into distinct strains through single-nucleotide mutations and structural variations such as recombination, insertions, and deletions. Most strain comparison methods primarily quantify...

Crowd-sourced Benchmarking of Single-sample Tumor Subclonal Reconstruction

Single-Sample Tumor Subclonal Reconstruction Algorithm Based on Crowd-Sourced Resources Background The evolution of cancer and the genetic heterogeneity of tumors are critical fields in modern oncology research. Tumors evolve from normal cells through progressive acquisition of somatic mutations. These mutations occur probabilistically, influenced ...

Graph Neural Networks with Multiple Prior Knowledge for Multi-omics Data Analysis

Graph Neural Networks with Multiple Prior Knowledge for Multi-omics Data Analysis

Multiple Prior Knowledge Graph Neural Network in Multi-Omics Data Analysis Background Introduction Precision medicine is an important field for the future of healthcare as it provides personalized treatment plans for patients, improving treatment outcomes and reducing costs. For instance, due to the complex clinical, pathological, and molecular cha...

Single-Subject Cortical Morphological Brain Networks: Phenotypic Associations and Neurobiological Substrates

This paper is a study on the phenotypic associations and neurobiological bases of single-subject morphological brain networks. Combining multimodal and multiscale data, this study reveals the differences in morphological brain networks between genders, their potential as individual-specific markers, and their relationships with gene expression, lay...

Associations of Epigenetic Age Estimators with Cognitive Function Trajectories in the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study

Association Between Epigenetic Age Acceleration Estimates and Cognitive Trajectories in the Women’s Health Initiative Memory Study Background Maintaining cognitive function is crucial for independent living among older adults. With the growth of the aging population, cognitive decline has become a significant public health challenge. Many studies h...

Gliomatosis cerebri in children: a poor prognostic phenotype of diffuse gliomas with a distinct molecular profile

Childhood Gliomatosis Cerebri: A Poor Prognosis Phenotype of Diffuse Glioma with Distinct Molecular Characteristics Introduction Gliomatosis cerebri (GC) is a highly invasive form of diffuse glioma. It was initially discarded as an independent pathological type due to its indeterminate molecular characteristics. However, with the advancements in mo...