The diversification of methods for studying cell–cell interactions and communication

E Armingol, HM Baghdassarian, NE Lewis - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
No cell lives in a vacuum, and the molecular interactions between cells define most
phenotypes. Transcriptomics provides rich information to infer cell–cell interactions and …

Profiling cell identity and tissue architecture with single-cell and spatial transcriptomics

GS Gulati, JP D'Silva, Y Liu, L Wang… - … Reviews Molecular Cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics has broadened our understanding of cellular diversity and gene
expression dynamics in healthy and diseased tissues. Recently, spatial transcriptomics has …

BANKSY unifies cell typing and tissue domain segmentation for scalable spatial omics data analysis

V Singhal, N Chou, J Lee, Y Yue, J Liu, WK Chock… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Spatial omics data are clustered to define both cell types and tissue domains. We present
Building Aggregates with a Neighborhood Kernel and Spatial Yardstick (BANKSY), an …

Benchmarking spatial clustering methods with spatially resolved transcriptomics data

Z Yuan, F Zhao, S Lin, Y Zhao, J Yao, Y Cui… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Spatial clustering, which shares an analogy with single-cell clustering, has expanded the
scope of tissue physiology studies from cell-centroid to structure-centroid with spatially …

Aberrant epithelial cell interaction promotes esophageal squamous-cell carcinoma development and progression

L Chen, S Zhu, T Liu, X Zhao, T Xiang, X Hu… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and proliferation play important roles in epithelial
cancer formation and progression, but what molecules and how they trigger EMT is largely …

Spatial multi-omics at subcellular resolution via high-throughput in situ pairwise sequencing

X Wu, W Xu, L Deng, Y Li, Z Wang, L Sun… - Nature Biomedical …, 2024 - nature.com
Technology for spatial multi-omics aids the discovery of new insights into cellular functions
and disease mechanisms. Here we report the development and applicability of multi-omics …

[HTML][HTML] Immune microniches shape intestinal Treg function

Y Gu, R Bartolomé-Casado, C Xu, A Bertocchi… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The intestinal immune system is highly adapted to maintaining tolerance to the commensal
microbiota and self-antigens while defending against invading pathogens,. Recognizing …

Signals that control MAIT cell function in healthy and inflamed human tissues

AJ Konecny, Y Huang, M Setty… - Immunological Reviews, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Mucosal‐associated invariant T (MAIT) cells have a semi‐invariant T‐cell receptor that
allows recognition of antigen in the context of the MHC class I‐related (MR1) protein …

Spatial transcriptomic analysis of primary and metastatic pancreatic cancers highlights tumor microenvironmental heterogeneity

AM Khaliq, M Rajamohan, O Saeed, K Mansouri… - Nature Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Although the spatial, cellular and molecular landscapes of resected pancreatic ductal
adenocarcinoma (PDAC) are well documented, the characteristics of its metastatic ecology …

Navigating the landscapes of spatial transcriptomics: How computational methods guide the way

R Li, X Chen, X Yang - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Spatially resolved transcriptomics has been dramatically transforming biological and
medical research in various fields. It enables transcriptome profiling at single‐cell, multi …