3D molecular reconstruction of a lung tumor. (IMAGE)
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The image shows that the tumor core is surrounded by multiple immune niches in an early-stage non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) patient. Analyses of these multicellular niches using single-cell resolution spatial transcriptomics identified several druggable targets. Inhibition of these targets could have prevented tumor progression in this patient, who instead received conventional chemotherapy and succumbed to the disease one year later.
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Image: Rajewsky lab, Max Delbrück Center
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