Release of the largest and highest resolution gastric cancer map to date

Science and Technology Daily, Beijing, November 3 (Reporter Liu Xia) According to a report on the 2nd of the Physicist Organization Network, Singaporean scientists have drawn the largest and highest resolution gastric cancer map to date with the help of cutting-edge technologies such as single-cell sequencing

In the latest study, scientists took 46 tumor samples from 31 patients at different stages of gastric cancer, analyzed 200,000 individual cells among them, and used new techniques to evaluate the expression patterns of individual genes.

Researchers have found that some types of gastric tumors contain immune cells, especially B cells that control antibody production, which suggests that cancer immunotherapy (by using the body's own immune system to fight cancer) can be used to treat the disease

The researchers said: "This is the most comprehensive study of its kind carried out using advanced technology.

The research team said that they are currently determining how the cell population changes over time.