AI-based analysis offers new roadmap for precision oncology The new approach combined digital pathology with spatial proteomics to uncover the secrets of metastasis and personalized treatment options. Written byAllison Whitten, PhD

AI-based analysis offers new roadmap for precision oncology The new approach combined digital pathology with spatial proteomics to uncover the secrets of metastasis and personalized treatment options. Written byAllison Whitten, PhD https://www.drugdiscoverynews.com/ai-based-analysis-offers-new-roadmap-for-precision-oncology-17460 How and why a tumor metastasizes — when a seemingly similar tumor doesn’t — remains one of the biggest questions in cancer research. New research from György Marko-Varga’s lab at Lund University with Istvan Nemeth at the Szeged Clinical hospital, and Peter Horvath’s team at HUN-REN Biological Research Centre suggests a new way to chip away at this question with the help of AI combined with spatial proteomics to reveal the single-cell dynamics of different populations of cancer cells within the same tumor. Their approach offers a promising step up over traditional molecular analyses that view the entire tissue sample at once and miss the functional differences in how different cell types behave.