The use of brain organoids to investigate neural development and disease

E Di Lullo, AR Kriegstein - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2017 - nature.com
Understanding the development and dysfunction of the human brain is a major goal of
neurobiology. Much of our current understanding of human brain development has been …

The role of neurod genes in brain development, function, and disease

S Tutukova, V Tarabykin… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Transcriptional regulation is essential for the correct functioning of cells during development
and in postnatal life. The basic Helix-loop-Helix (bHLH) superfamily of transcription factors is …

Whole-genome deep-learning analysis identifies contribution of noncoding mutations to autism risk

J Zhou, CY Park, CL Theesfeld, AK Wong, Y Yuan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
We address the challenge of detecting the contribution of noncoding mutations to disease
with a deep-learning-based framework that predicts the specific regulatory effects and the …

Notch signaling suppresses neuroendocrine differentiation and alters the immune microenvironment in advanced prostate cancer

SY Ku, Y Wang, MM Garcia, Y Yamada, K Mizuno… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2024 - jci.org
Notch signaling can have either an oncogenic or tumor-suppressive function in cancer
depending on the cancer type and cellular context. While Notch can be oncogenic in early …

Single-cell transcriptional profiling of human thymic stroma uncovers novel cellular heterogeneity in the thymic medulla

JL Bautista, NT Cramer, CN Miller, J Chavez… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The thymus' key function in the immune system is to provide the necessary environment for
the development of diverse and self-tolerant T lymphocytes. While recent evidence suggests …

ASCL1 and NEUROD1 reveal heterogeneity in pulmonary neuroendocrine tumors and regulate distinct genetic programs

MD Borromeo, TK Savage, RK Kollipara, M He… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Small cell lung carcinoma (SCLC) is a high-grade pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor. The
transcription factors ASCL1 and NEUROD1 play crucial roles in promoting malignant …

Population-scale single-cell RNA-seq profiling across dopaminergic neuron differentiation

J Jerber, DD Seaton, ASE Cuomo, N Kumasaka… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Studying the function of common genetic variants in primary human tissues and during
development is challenging. To address this, we use an efficient multiplexing strategy to …

Neurogenesis in the embryonic and adult brain: same regulators, different roles

N Urbán, F Guillemot - Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Neurogenesis persists in adult mammals in specific brain areas, known as neurogenic
niches. Adult neurogenesis is highly dynamic and is modulated by multiple physiological …

[HTML][HTML] Cerebral organoids recapitulate epigenomic signatures of the human fetal brain

C Luo, MA Lancaster, R Castanon, JR Nery… - Cell reports, 2016 - cell.com
Organoids derived from human pluripotent stem cells recapitulate the early three-
dimensional organization of the human brain, but whether they establish the epigenomic …

Small-molecule-driven direct reprogramming of mouse fibroblasts into functional neurons

X Li, X Zuo, J Jing, Y Ma, J Wang, D Liu, J Zhu, X Du… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Recently, direct reprogramming between divergent lineages has been achieved by the
introduction of regulatory transcription factors. This approach may provide alternative cell …