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Navoximod modulates local HSV-1 replication to reshape tumor immune microenvironment for enhanced immunotherapy via an injectable hydrogel

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Cerebrospinal fluid immunological cytokines predict intracranial tumor response to immunotherapy in non-small cell lung cancer patients with brain metastases

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Integrative Analyses of Pyrimidine Salvage Pathway-Related Genes Revealing the Associations Between UPP1 and Tumor Microenvironment

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Chemokine profiling of melanoma–macrophage crosstalk identifies CCL8 and CCL15 as prognostic factors in cutaneous melanoma

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Single-cell transcriptomic-informed deconvolution of bulk data identifies immune checkpoint blockade resistance in urothelial cancer

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Chemotherapy Enriches for Proinflammatory Macrophage Phenotypes that Support Cancer Stem-Like Cells and Disease Progression in Ovarian Cancer

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Single-cell eQTL Mapping Reveals Cell Subtype–specific Genetic Control and Mechanism in Malignant Transformation of Colorectal Cancer

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A systematic pan-cancer analysis identifies LDHA as a novel predictor for immunological, prognostic, and immunotherapy resistance

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Spatial Organization of Macrophages in CTL-Rich Hepatocellular Carcinoma Influences CTL Antitumor Activity

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The landscape of malignant transition: Unraveling cancer cell-of-origin and heterogeneous tissue microenvironment

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Integrated transcriptome study of the tumor microenvironment for treatment response prediction in male predominant hypopharyngeal carcinoma

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Dissecting inflammation in the immunemetabolomic era

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Dendritic cells: the central partner for cancer immunity

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A spatially resolved atlas of gastric cancer characterises a lymphocyte-aggregated region

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Single‐cell transcriptomics dissects premalignant progression in proliferative verrucous leukoplakia

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Unraveling the Complexity of Liver Disease One Cell at a Time

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A single-cell landscape of pre- and post-menopausal high-grade serous ovarian cancer ascites

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New Insight into Intestinal Mast Cells Revealed by Single-Cell RNA Sequencing

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Application and new findings of scRNA-seq and ST-seq in prostate cancer

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Integrated proteomics and scRNA-seq analyses of ovarian cancer reveal molecular subtype-associated cell landscapes and immunotherapy targets

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Tumour heterogeneity and personalized treatment screening based on single-cell transcriptomics

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Integrated analysis of single-cell and bulk transcriptomics reveals cellular subtypes and molecular features associated with osteosarcoma prognosis

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A multi-omics analysis of effector and resting treg cells in pan-cancer

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Curcumin induces mitochondrial dysfunction-associated oxidative DNA damage in ovarian cancer cells

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Single-Cell Transcriptomic Landscape Deciphers Intratumoral Heterogeneity and Subtypes of Acral and Mucosal Melanomas

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Mapping the tumor immune landscape: single-cell RNA sequencing in cancer immunotherapy

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scKAN: interpretable single-cell analysis for cell-type-specific gene discovery and drug repurposing via Kolmogorov-Arnold networks

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An In Vivo Model of Human Macrophages in Metastatic Melanoma

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Utilizing mast cells in a positive manner to overcome inflammatory and allergic diseases

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Peripheral Lymphocytes in Primary Liver Cancers: Elevated NK and CD8+ T Cells and Dysregulated Selenium Metabolism

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A Machine Learning Workflow of Multiplexed Immunofluorescence Images to Interrogate Activator and Tolerogenic Profiles of Conventional Type 1 Dendritic Cells Infiltrating Melanomas of Disease-Free and Metastatic Patients

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PDE5A + cancer-associated fibroblasts enhance immune suppression in gastric cancer

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Meningeal blood vessel blockage enhances anti-glioblastoma immunity

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Oncogenic and tumor-suppressive forces converge on a progenitor niche at the benign-to-malignant transition

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Ecotypes of triple-negative breast cancer in response to chemotherapy

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An advanced comprehensive muti-cell-type-specific model for predicting anti-PD-1 therapeutic effect in melanoma

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Myeloid Cell-Derived IL-1 Signaling Damps Neuregulin-1 from Fibroblasts to Suppress Colitis-Induced Early Repair of the Intestinal Epithelium

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Unveiling Atherosclerotic Plaque Heterogeneity and SPP1+/VCAN+ Macrophage Subtype Prognostic Significance Through Integrative Single-Cell and Bulk-Seq Analysis

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CD63 + tumor-associated macrophages drive the progression of hepatocellular carcinoma through the induction of epithelial-mesenchymal transition and lipid reprogramming

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