{"id":192041,"date":"2024-06-29T06:22:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T11:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/ai-tool-using-single-cell-data-has-promise-for-optimally-matching-cancer-drugs-to-patients"},"modified":"2024-06-29T06:22:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T11:22:24","slug":"ai-tool-using-single-cell-data-has-promise-for-optimally-matching-cancer-drugs-to-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/ai-tool-using-single-cell-data-has-promise-for-optimally-matching-cancer-drugs-to-patients","title":{"rendered":"AI Tool Using Single-Cell Data Has Promise for Optimally Matching Cancer Drugs to Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A team led by NCI researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that uses data from individual cells inside tumors to predict whether a person\u2019s cancer will respond to a specific drug. Learn more about how these findings hold promise for optimally matching cancer drugs to patients:<\/p>\n

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\nPrecision oncology<\/a>, in which doctors choose cancer treatment options based on the underlying molecular or genetic signature of individual tumors, has come a long way. The Food and Drug Administration has approved a growing number of tests that look for specific genetic changes that drive cancer growth to match patients to targeted treatments. The NCI-MATCH trial<\/a>, supported by the National Cancer Institute, in which participants with advanced or rare cancer had their tumors sequenced in search of genetic changes that matched them to a treatment, has also suggested benefits for guiding treatment through genetic sequencing. But there remains a need to better predict treatment responses for people with cancer.<\/p>\n

A promising approach is to analyze a tumor\u2019s RNA in addition to its DNA. The idea is to not only better understand underlying genetic changes, but also learn how those changes impact gene activity as measured by RNA sequencing data. A recent study introduces an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven tool, dubbed PERCEPTION (PERsonalized single-Cell Expression-based Planning for Treatments In ONcology), developed by an NIH-led team to do just this.1<\/sup> This proof-of-concept study, published in Nature Cancer<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> shows that it\u2019s possible to fine-tune predictions of a patient\u2019s treatment responses from bulk RNA data by zeroing in on what\u2019s happening inside single cells.<\/p>\n

One of the challenges in relying on bulk data from tumor samples is they typically include mixtures of like cells known as clones. Because different clones may respond differently to specific drugs, averaging what\u2019s happening in cells across a particular patient\u2019s tumor may not provide a clear picture of how that cancer will respond to a drug. Being able to capture gene activity patterns all the way down to the single-cell level might be a better way to target clones with specific alterations and therefore see better drug responses, but so far, single-cell gene expression data haven\u2019t been widely available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A team led by NCI researchers has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that uses data from individual cells inside tumors to predict whether a person\u2019s cancer will respond to a specific drug. Learn more about how these findings hold promise for optimally matching cancer drugs to patients: Precision oncology, in which doctors choose cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}