Tissue clearing

DS Richardson, W Guan, K Matsumoto, C Pan… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Tissue clearing of gross anatomical samples was first described more than a century ago
and has only recently found widespread use in the field of microscopy. This renaissance has …

[HTML][HTML] Anatomical structures, cell types and biomarkers of the Human Reference Atlas

K Börner, SA Teichmann, EM Quardokus, JC Gee… - Nature cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Human Reference Atlas (HRA) aims to map all of the cells of the human body
to advance biomedical research and clinical practice. This Perspective presents …

A single–cell type transcriptomics map of human tissues

M Karlsson, C Zhang, L Méar, W Zhong, A Digre… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Advances in molecular profiling have opened up the possibility to map the expression of
genes in cells, tissues, and organs in the human body. Here, we combined single-cell …

Microglial activation and tau propagate jointly across Braak stages

TA Pascoal, AL Benedet, NJ Ashton, MS Kang… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Compelling experimental evidence suggests that microglial activation is involved in the
spread of tau tangles over the neocortex in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We tested the …

Neurocognitive and hypokinetic movement disorder with features of parkinsonism after BCMA-targeting CAR-T cell therapy

O Van Oekelen, A Aleman, B Upadhyaya… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) is a prominent tumor-associated target for chimeric
antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy in multiple myeloma (MM). Here, we describe the case …

Standardizing workflows in imaging transcriptomics with the abagen toolbox

RD Markello, A Arnatkeviciute, JB Poline, BD Fulcher… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Gene expression fundamentally shapes the structural and functional architecture of the
human brain. Open-access transcriptomic datasets like the Allen Human Brain Atlas provide …

[HTML][HTML] The spatial and cell-type distribution of SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in the human and mouse brains

R Chen, K Wang, J Yu, D Howard, L French… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
By engaging angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2 or Ace2), the novel pathogenic
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) invades host cells and …

Transcriptome-scale spatial gene expression in the human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex

KR Maynard, L Collado-Torres, LM Weber… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We used the 10x Genomics Visium platform to define the spatial topography of gene
expression in the six-layered human dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. We identified extensive …

[HTML][HTML] A metabolome atlas of the aging mouse brain

J Ding, J Ji, Z Rabow, T Shen, J Folz… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The mammalian brain relies on neurochemistry to fulfill its functions. Yet, the complexity of
the brain metabolome and its changes during diseases or aging remain poorly understood …

[HTML][HTML] Neural heterogeneity promotes robust learning

N Perez-Nieves, VCH Leung, PL Dragotti… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The brain is a hugely diverse, heterogeneous structure. Whether or not heterogeneity at the
neural level plays a functional role remains unclear, and has been relatively little explored in …