The colocatome as a spatial -omic reveals shared microenvironment features between tumour-stroma assembloids and lung cancer specimens
G. Bouchard, W. Zhang, I. Li, I. Ilerten, J. B. Shrager, A. Bhattacharya, Y. Li, W. Trope, M. G. Osawa, C. Kuo, L. Tian, A. J. Giaccia, S. K. Plevritis
The paper introduces the colocatome, a spatial-omic framework, to compare microenvironment features between tumour-stroma assembloids and lung cancer specimens, finding that fibroblasts protect cancer cells from treatment by reorganizing cytoarchitecture.
bioRxiv · Sep 11, 2023 · PreprintBioengineering