Single-Cell Toolkits in Cancer Research
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Methods and Technologies Development".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2023) | Viewed by 181
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Single-cell techniques have revolutionized cancer research by enabling the characterization of individual cells at the molecular level. This level of detail was previously impossible to obtain with traditional cell culture or tissue biopsy methods. With single-cell techniques, researchers can study the heterogeneity of cancer cells within a tumor, leading to a better understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms that drive the disease. Single-cell analysis allows researchers to identify subpopulations of cancer cells with distinct molecular profiles, providing valuable information on the diversity of cancer cells within a single tumor. This information can be used to predict the response of a patient based on a particular treatment and stratify patients for personalized therapy.
This Special Issue aims to highlight single-cell techniques as a valuable tool in cancer research, providing unprecedented detail on the molecular makeup of individual cells and offering a new level of understanding for the disease.
We are pleased to invite both original research articles and reviews. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following: the development of single-cell tools for cancer research or applications of single-cell techniques and analysis to study tumor heterogeneity, tumor evolution, cancer stem cells, drug development, early diagnosis, and disease stratification.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Jiabao Xu
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- single-cell analysis
- single-cell sequencing
- cancer heterogeneity
- tumor evolution
- cancer stem cells
- drug development
- early diagnosis
- patient stratification
- precision medicine
- multi-omics
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