Human brain organogenesis: Toward a cellular understanding of development and disease

KW Kelley, SP Pașca - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The construction of the human nervous system is a distinctly complex although highly
regulated process. Human tissue inaccessibility has impeded a molecular understanding of …

Principles and challenges of modeling temporal and spatial omics data

B Velten, O Stegle - Nature Methods, 2023 - nature.com
Studies with temporal or spatial resolution are crucial to understand the molecular dynamics
and spatial dependencies underlying a biological process or system. With advances in high …

A single-cell transcriptome atlas profiles early organogenesis in human embryos

Y Xu, T Zhang, Q Zhou, M Hu, Y Qi, Y Xue, Y Nie… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The early window of human embryogenesis is largely a black box for developmental
biologists. Here we probed the cellular diversity of 4–6 week human embryos when …

AnimalTFDB 4.0: a comprehensive animal transcription factor database updated with variation and expression annotations

WK Shen, SY Chen, ZQ Gan, YZ Zhang… - Nucleic acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Transcription factors (TFs) are proteins that interact with specific DNA sequences to regulate
gene expression and play crucial roles in all kinds of biological processes. To keep up with …

[HTML][HTML] GPC2-CAR T cells tuned for low antigen density mediate potent activity against neuroblastoma without toxicity

S Heitzeneder, KR Bosse, Z Zhu, D Zhelev… - Cancer Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Pediatric cancers often mimic fetal tissues and express proteins normally silenced
postnatally that could serve as immune targets. We developed T cells expressing chimeric …

Single-cell atlas of early human brain development highlights heterogeneity of human neuroepithelial cells and early radial glia

UC Eze, A Bhaduri, M Haeussler, TJ Nowakowski… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The human cortex comprises diverse cell types that emerge from an initially uniform
neuroepithelium that gives rise to radial glia, the neural stem cells of the cortex. To …

Developmental mechanisms underlying the evolution of human cortical circuits

P Vanderhaeghen, F Polleux - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
The brain of modern humans has evolved remarkable computational abilities that enable
higher cognitive functions. These capacities are tightly linked to an increase in the size and …

ROS1-dependent cancers—biology, diagnostics and therapeutics

A Drilon, C Jenkins, S Iyer, A Schoenfeld… - Nature reviews Clinical …, 2021 - nature.com
The proto-oncogene ROS1 encodes a receptor tyrosine kinase with an unknown
physiological role in humans. Somatic chromosomal fusions involving ROS1 produce …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Cross-HLA targeting of intracellular oncoproteins with peptide-centric CARs

M Yarmarkovich, QF Marshall, JM Warrington… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The majority of oncogenic drivers are intracellular proteins, thus constraining their
immunotherapeutic targeting to mutated peptides (neoantigens) presented by individual …

Current sequence-based models capture gene expression determinants in promoters but mostly ignore distal enhancers

A Karollus, T Mauermeier, J Gagneur - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Background The largest sequence-based models of transcription control to date are
obtained by predicting genome-wide gene regulatory assays across the human genome …