Future of digital assays to resolve clinical heterogeneity of single extracellular vesicles

RTT Morales, J Ko - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are complex lipid membrane vehicles with variable expressions
of molecular cargo, composed of diverse subpopulations that participate in the intercellular …

Artificial intelligence assists precision medicine in cancer treatment

J Liao, X Li, Y Gan, S Han, P Rong, W Wang… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Cancer is a major medical problem worldwide. Due to its high heterogeneity, the use of the
same drugs or surgical methods in patients with the same tumor may have different curative …

LRRC15+ myofibroblasts dictate the stromal setpoint to suppress tumour immunity

AT Krishnamurty, JA Shyer, M Thai, V Gandham… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Recent single-cell studies of cancer in both mice and humans have identified the
emergence of a myofibroblast population specifically marked by the highly restricted leucine …

Scalable, multimodal profiling of chromatin accessibility, gene expression and protein levels in single cells

EP Mimitou, CA Lareau, KY Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Recent technological advances have enabled massively parallel chromatin profiling with
scATAC-seq (single-cell assay for transposase accessible chromatin by sequencing). Here …

Disease-associated astrocytes in Alzheimer's disease and aging

N Habib, C McCabe, S Medina, M Varshavsky… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The role of non-neuronal cells in Alzheimer's disease progression has not been fully
elucidated. Using single-nucleus RNA sequencing, we identified a population of disease …

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 …

snRNA-seq reveals a subpopulation of adipocytes that regulates thermogenesis

W Sun, H Dong, M Balaz, M Slyper, E Drokhlyansky… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Adipose tissue is usually classified on the basis of its function as white, brown or beige
(brite). It is an important regulator of systemic metabolism, as shown by the fact that …

[HTML][HTML] Stem-like intestinal Th17 cells give rise to pathogenic effector T cells during autoimmunity

A Schnell, L Huang, M Singer, A Singaraju, RM Barilla… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
While intestinal Th17 cells are critical for maintaining tissue homeostasis, recent studies
have implicated their roles in the development of extra-intestinal autoimmune diseases …

A single-cell and single-nucleus RNA-Seq toolbox for fresh and frozen human tumors

M Slyper, CBM Porter, O Ashenberg, J Waldman… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Single-cell genomics is essential to chart tumor ecosystems. Although single-cell RNA-Seq
(scRNA-Seq) profiles RNA from cells dissociated from fresh tumors, single-nucleus RNA …

DoubletFinder: doublet detection in single-cell RNA sequencing data using artificial nearest neighbors

CS McGinnis, LM Murrow, ZJ Gartner - Cell systems, 2019 - cell.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data are commonly affected by technical artifacts
known as" doublets," which limit cell throughput and lead to spurious biological conclusions …