Methods and applications for single-cell and spatial multi-omics

K Vandereyken, A Sifrim, B Thienpont… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
The joint analysis of the genome, epigenome, transcriptome, proteome and/or metabolome
from single cells is transforming our understanding of cell biology in health and disease. In …

Wound healing, fibroblast heterogeneity, and fibrosis

HE Talbott, S Mascharak, M Griffin, DC Wan… - Cell stem cell, 2022 - cell.com
Fibroblasts are highly dynamic cells that play a central role in tissue repair and fibrosis.
However, the mechanisms by which they contribute to both physiologic and pathologic …

The interplay of fibroblasts, the extracellular matrix, and inflammation in scar formation

L Moretti, J Stalfort, TH Barker, D Abebayehu - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Various forms of fibrosis, comprising tissue thickening and scarring, are involved in 40% of
deaths across the world. Since the discovery of scarless functional healing in fetuses prior to …

Multiomic analysis reveals conservation of cancer-associated fibroblast phenotypes across species and tissue of origin

DS Foster, M Januszyk, D Delitto, KE Yost, M Griffin… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are integral to the solid tumor microenvironment.
CAFs were once thought to be a relatively uniform population of matrix-producing cells, but …

The role of myofibroblasts in physiological and pathological tissue repair

R Schuster, F Younesi, M Ezzo… - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2023 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Myofibroblasts are the construction workers of wound healing and repair damaged tissues
by producing and organizing collagen/extracellular matrix (ECM) into scar tissue. Scar tissue …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-omic analysis reveals divergent molecular events in scarring and regenerative wound healing

S Mascharak, HE Talbott, M Januszyk, M Griffin… - Cell Stem Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Regeneration is the holy grail of tissue repair, but skin injury typically yields fibrotic, non-
functional scars. Developing pro-regenerative therapies requires rigorous understanding of …

[HTML][HTML] Fibroblast inflammatory priming determines regenerative versus fibrotic skin repair in reindeer

S Sinha, HD Sparks, E Labit, HN Robbins, K Gowing… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Adult mammalian skin wounds heal by forming fibrotic scars. We report that full-thickness
injuries of reindeer antler skin (velvet) regenerate, whereas back skin forms fibrotic scar …

Construction of a 3D whole organism spatial atlas by joint modelling of multiple slices with deep neural networks

G Wang, J Zhao, Y Yan, Y Wang, AR Wu… - Nature Machine …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics (ST) technologies are revolutionizing the way to explore the spatial
architecture of tissues. Currently, ST data analysis is often restricted to a single two …

Deciphering tissue structure and function using spatial transcriptomics

BL Walker, Z Cang, H Ren, E Bourgain-Chang… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The rapid development of spatial transcriptomics (ST) techniques has allowed the
measurement of transcriptional levels across many genes together with the spatial positions …

Spatial omics: Navigating to the golden era of cancer research

Y Wu, Y Cheng, X Wang, J Fan… - Clinical and Translational …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The idea that tumour microenvironment (TME) is organised in a spatial manner will not
surprise many cancer biologists; however, systematically capturing spatial architecture of …