Characterizing cis-regulatory elements using single-cell epigenomics

S Preissl, KJ Gaulton, B Ren - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Cell type-specific gene expression patterns and dynamics during development or in disease
are controlled by cis-regulatory elements (CREs), such as promoters and enhancers …

The triumphs and limitations of computational methods for scRNA-seq

PV Kharchenko - Nature methods, 2021 - nature.com
The rapid progress of protocols for sequencing single-cell transcriptomes over the past
decade has been accompanied by equally impressive advances in the computational …

High-dimensional single-cell analysis of human natural killer cell heterogeneity

L Rebuffet, JE Melsen, B Escalière… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Natural killer (NK) cells are innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) contributing to immune responses to
microbes and tumors. Historically, their classification hinged on a limited array of surface …

A molecular single-cell lung atlas of lethal COVID-19

JC Melms, J Biermann, H Huang, Y Wang, A Nair… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Respiratory failure is the leading cause of death in patients with severe SARS-CoV-2
infection,, but the host response at the lung tissue level is poorly understood. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Ovarian cancer mutational processes drive site-specific immune evasion

I Vázquez-García, F Uhlitz, N Ceglia, JLP Lim, M Wu… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
High-grade serous ovarian cancer (HGSOC) is an archetypal cancer of genomic instability,,–
patterned by distinct mutational processes,, tumour heterogeneity,–and intraperitoneal …

Interferon-dependent SLC14A1+ cancer-associated fibroblasts promote cancer stemness via WNT5A in bladder cancer

Z Ma, X Li, Y Mao, C Wei, Z Huang, G Li, J Yin, X Liang… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) play a role in response to cancer treatment and
patient prognosis. CAFs show phenotypic and functional heterogeneity and differ widely in …

Heterogeneity of meningeal B cells reveals a lymphopoietic niche at the CNS borders

S Brioschi, WL Wang, V Peng, M Wang, I Shchukina… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The meninges are a three-layer membrane that covers the central nervous
system (CNS): The outermost layer, the dura mater, is attached onto the skull periosteum; …

Molecular logic of cellular diversification in the mouse cerebral cortex

DJ Di Bella, E Habibi, RR Stickels, G Scalia, J Brown… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The mammalian cerebral cortex has an unparalleled diversity of cell types, which are
generated during development through a series of temporally orchestrated events that are …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammatory exposure drives long-lived impairment of hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal activity and accelerated aging

R Bogeska, AM Mikecin, P Kaschutnig, M Fawaz… - Cell stem cell, 2022 - cell.com
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) mediate regeneration of the hematopoietic system
following injury, such as following infection or inflammation. These challenges impair HSC …

Proper acquisition of cell class identity in organoids allows definition of fate specification programs of the human cerebral cortex

A Uzquiano, AJ Kedaigle, M Pigoni, B Paulsen… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Realizing the full utility of brain organoids to study human development requires
understanding whether organoids precisely replicate endogenous cellular and molecular …