Impact of the Human Cell Atlas on medicine

JE Rood, A Maartens, A Hupalowska, SA Teichmann… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell atlases promise to provide a 'missing link'between genes, diseases and
therapies. By identifying the specific cell types, states, programs and contexts where disease …

Fibrosis: from mechanisms to medicines

NC Henderson, F Rieder, TA Wynn - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fibrosis can affect any organ and is responsible for up to 45% of all deaths in the
industrialized world. It has long been thought to be relentlessly progressive and irreversible …

Dictionary learning for integrative, multimodal and scalable single-cell analysis

Y Hao, T Stuart, MH Kowalski, S Choudhary… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mapping single-cell sequencing profiles to comprehensive reference datasets provides a
powerful alternative to unsupervised analysis. However, most reference datasets are …

COVID-19 tissue atlases reveal SARS-CoV-2 pathology and cellular targets

TM Delorey, CGK Ziegler, G Heimberg, R Normand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
COVID-19, which is caused by SARS-CoV-2, can result in acute respiratory distress
syndrome and multiple organ failure,,–, but little is known about its pathophysiology. Here …

A spatially resolved atlas of the human lung characterizes a gland-associated immune niche

E Madissoon, AJ Oliver, V Kleshchevnikov… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics has allowed unprecedented resolution of cell types/states in the
human lung, but their spatial context is less well defined. To (re) define tissue architecture of …

Regulation of immune responses by the airway epithelial cell landscape

RJ Hewitt, CM Lloyd - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The community of cells lining our airways plays a collaborative role in the preservation of
immune homeostasis in the lung and provides protection from the pathogens and pollutants …

Alveolar regeneration through a Krt8+ transitional stem cell state that persists in human lung fibrosis

M Strunz, LM Simon, M Ansari, JJ Kathiriya… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The cell type specific sequences of transcriptional programs during lung regeneration have
remained elusive. Using time-series single cell RNA-seq of the bleomycin lung injury model …

Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

D Lähnemann, J Köster, E Szczurek, DJ McCarthy… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …

[PDF][PDF] The aging lung: Physiology, disease, and immunity

JL Schneider, JH Rowe, C Garcia-de-Alba, CF Kim… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
The population is aging at a rate never seen before in human history. As the number of
elderly adults grows, it is imperative we expand our understanding of the underpinnings of …

Temporal modelling using single-cell transcriptomics

J Ding, N Sharon, Z Bar-Joseph - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Methods for profiling genes at the single-cell level have revolutionized our ability to study
several biological processes and systems including development, differentiation, response …