Single-cell RNA sequencing: technical advancements and biological applications

E Hedlund, Q Deng - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Cells are the basic building blocks of organisms and each cell is unique. Single-cell RNA
sequencing has emerged as an indispensable tool to dissect the cellular heterogeneity and …

KRAB zinc finger proteins

G Ecco, M Imbeault, D Trono - Development, 2017 - journals.biologists.com
Krüppel-associated box domain zinc finger proteins (KRAB-ZFPs) are the largest family of
transcriptional regulators in higher vertebrates. Characterized by an N-terminal KRAB …

Photo-assisted robust anti-interference self-powered biosensing of microRNA based on Pt–S bonds and the inorganic–organic hybridization strategy

S Song, N Li, L Bai, P Gai, F Li - Analytical Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photo-assisted biofuel cell-based self-powered biosensors (PBFC-SPBs) possess the
advantages of no need for external power supply, ease of sensing design, and simple …

[PDF][PDF] Replication stress impairs chromosome segregation and preimplantation development in human embryos

KL Palmerola, S Amrane, A De Los Angeles, S Xu… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human cleavage-stage embryos frequently acquire chromosomal aneuploidies during
mitosis due to unknown mechanisms. Here, we show that S phase at the 1-cell stage shows …

[HTML][HTML] Derivation of totipotent-like stem cells with blastocyst-like structure forming potential

Y Xu, J Zhao, Y Ren, X Wang, Y Lyu, B Xie, Y Sun… - Cell Research, 2022 - nature.com
It is challenging to derive totipotent stem cells in vitro that functionally and molecularly
resemble cells from totipotent embryos. Here, we report that a chemical cocktail enables the …

[PDF][PDF] Lineage-specific profiling delineates the emergence and progression of naive pluripotency in mammalian embryogenesis

T Boroviak, R Loos, P Lombard, J Okahara, R Behr… - Developmental cell, 2015 - cell.com
Naive pluripotency is manifest in the preimplantation mammalian embryo. Here we
determine transcriptome dynamics of mouse development from the eight-cell stage to …

Integrated genome and transcriptome sequencing of the same cell

SS Dey, L Kester, B Spanjaard, M Bienko… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Single-cell genomics and single-cell transcriptomics have emerged as powerful tools to
study the biology of single cells at a genome-wide scale. However, a major challenge is to …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor functional heterogeneity unraveled by scRNA-seq technologies

L González-Silva, L Quevedo, I Varela - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Effective cancer treatment has been precluded by the presence of various forms of
intratumoral complexity that drive treatment resistance and metastasis. Recent single-cell …

[PDF][PDF] Heterogeneity in Oct4 and Sox2 targets biases cell fate in 4-cell mouse embryos

M Goolam, A Scialdone, SJL Graham, IC Macaulay… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
The major and essential objective of pre-implantation development is to establish embryonic
and extra-embryonic cell fates. To address when and how this fundamental process is …

Disentangling neural cell diversity using single-cell transcriptomics

JF Poulin, B Tasic, J Hjerling-Leffler, JM Trimarchi… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Cellular specialization is particularly prominent in mammalian nervous systems, which are
composed of millions to billions of neurons that appear in thousands of different'flavors' and …