The Known Unknowns of the Immune Response to Coccidioides

RA Ward, GR Thompson 3rd, AC Villani, B Li… - Journal of Fungi, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coccidioidomycosis, otherwise known as Valley Fever, is caused by the dimorphic fungi
Coccidioides immitis and C. posadasii. While most clinical cases present with self-limiting …

Attention-based Multi-instance Mixed Models

JP Engelmann, A Palma, JM Tomczak, FJ Theis… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Predicting patient features from single-cell data can unveil cellular states implicated in
health and disease. Linear models and average cell type expressions are typically favored …

Specific splice junction detection in single cells with SICILIAN

R Dehghannasiri, JE Olivieri, A Damljanovic… - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
Precise splice junction calls are currently unavailable in scRNA-seq pipelines such as the
10x Chromium platform but are critical for understanding single-cell biology. Here, we …

Hydroxypropyl cyclodextrin improves amiodarone-induced aberrant lipid homeostasis of alveolar cells

S Kanagaki, T Suezawa, K Moriguchi… - American Journal of …, 2021 - atsjournals.org
Alveolar epithelial type II (AT2) cells secrete pulmonary surfactant via lamellar bodies (LBs).
Abnormalities in LBs are associated with pulmonary disorders, including fibrosis. However …

Towards an artificial human lung: modelling organ-like complexity to aid mechanistic understanding

MV Humbert, CM Spalluto, J Bell… - European …, 2022 - Eur Respiratory Soc
Respiratory diseases account for over 5 million deaths yearly and are a huge burden to
healthcare systems worldwide. Murine models have been of paramount importance to …

Answering open questions in biology using spatial genomics and structured methods

SG Jena, A Verma, BE Engelhardt - arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.09482, 2023 - arxiv.org
Genomics methods have uncovered patterns in a range of biological systems, but obscure
important aspects of cell behavior: the shape, relative locations of, movement of, and …

Differential lysotracker uptake defines two populations of distal epithelial cells in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

RM Wasnick, I Shalashova, J Wilhelm, A Khadim… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and fatal degenerative lung disease of
unknown etiology. Although in its final stages it implicates, in a reactive manner, all lung cell …

A single-cell regulatory map of postnatal lung alveologenesis in humans and mice

TE Duong, Y Wu, BC Sos, W Dong, S Limaye… - Cell genomics, 2022 - cell.com
Ex-utero regulation of the lungs' responses to breathing air and continued alveolar
development shape adult respiratory health. Applying single-cell transposome …

From COVID to fibrosis: lessons from single-cell analyses of the human lung

A Justet, AY Zhao, N Kaminski - Human Genomics, 2022 - Springer
The increased resolution of single-cell RNA-sequencing technologies has led to major
breakthroughs and improved our understanding of the normal and pathologic conditions of …

Strength in numbers: Large-scale integration of single-cell transcriptomic data reveals rare, transient muscle progenitor cell states in muscle regeneration

DW McKellar, LD Walter, LT Song, M Mantri… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Skeletal muscle repair is driven by the coordinated self-renewal and fusion of myogenic
stem and progenitor cells. Single-cell gene expression analyses of myogenesis have been …