Spatial components of molecular tissue biology

G Palla, DS Fischer, A Regev, FJ Theis - Nature Biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Methods for profiling RNA and protein expression in a spatially resolved manner are rapidly
evolving, making it possible to comprehensively characterize cells and tissues in health and …

Integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to elucidate intercellular tissue dynamics

SK Longo, MG Guo, AL Ji, PA Khavari - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) identifies cell subpopulations within tissue but
does not capture their spatial distribution nor reveal local networks of intercellular …

A single-cell atlas of human and mouse white adipose tissue

MP Emont, C Jacobs, AL Essene, D Pant, D Tenen… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
White adipose tissue, once regarded as morphologically and functionally bland, is now
recognized to be dynamic, plastic and heterogenous, and is involved in a wide array of …

Spatially informed cell-type deconvolution for spatial transcriptomics

Y Ma, X Zhou - Nature biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Many spatially resolved transcriptomic technologies do not have single-cell resolution but
measure the average gene expression for each spot from a mixture of cells of potentially …

[HTML][HTML] Cell type and gene expression deconvolution with BayesPrism enables Bayesian integrative analysis across bulk and single-cell RNA sequencing in …

T Chu, Z Wang, D Pe'er, CG Danko - Nature Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Inferring single-cell compositions and their contributions to global gene expression changes
from bulk RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) datasets is a major challenge in oncology. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Tumor microenvironment: barrier or opportunity towards effective cancer therapy

A Tiwari, R Trivedi, SY Lin - Journal of biomedical science, 2022 - Springer
Tumor microenvironment (TME) is a specialized ecosystem of host components, designed
by tumor cells for successful development and metastasis of tumor. With the advent of 3D …

Interpreting type 1 diabetes risk with genetics and single-cell epigenomics

J Chiou, RJ Geusz, ML Okino, JY Han, M Miller… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Genetic risk variants that have been identified in genome-wide association studies of
complex diseases are primarily non-coding. Translating these risk variants into mechanistic …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in mixed cell deconvolution enable quantification of cell types in spatial transcriptomic data

P Danaher, Y Kim, B Nelson, M Griswold… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Mapping cell types across a tissue is a central concern of spatial biology, but cell type
abundance is difficult to extract from spatial gene expression data. We introduce …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking of cell type deconvolution pipelines for transcriptomics data

F Avila Cobos, J Alquicira-Hernandez… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Many computational methods have been developed to infer cell type proportions from bulk
transcriptomics data. However, an evaluation of the impact of data transformation, pre …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-omics analysis identifies therapeutic vulnerabilities in triple-negative breast cancer subtypes

BD Lehmann, A Colaprico, TC Silva, J Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is a collection of biologically diverse cancers
characterized by distinct transcriptional patterns, biology, and immune composition. TNBCs …