Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

D Lähnemann, J Köster, E Szczurek, DJ McCarthy… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …

Role of inflammatory cytokines in COVID-19 patients: A review on molecular mechanisms, immune functions, immunopathology and immunomodulatory drugs to …

AA Rabaan, SH Al-Ahmed, J Muhammad, A Khan… - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), is a severe pandemic of the current century. The vicious …

Single-nucleus and spatial transcriptome profiling of pancreatic cancer identifies multicellular dynamics associated with neoadjuvant treatment

WL Hwang, KA Jagadeesh, JA Guo, HI Hoffman… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal and treatment-refractory
cancer. Molecular stratification in pancreatic cancer remains rudimentary and does not yet …

Cell2location maps fine-grained cell types in spatial transcriptomics

V Kleshchevnikov, A Shmatko, E Dann… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomic technologies promise to resolve cellular wiring diagrams of tissues in
health and disease, but comprehensive mapping of cell types in situ remains a challenge …

Intratumoral dendritic cell–CD4+ T helper cell niches enable CD8+ T cell differentiation following PD-1 blockade in hepatocellular carcinoma

A Magen, P Hamon, N Fiaschi, BY Soong, MD Park… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Despite no apparent defects in T cell priming and recruitment to tumors, a large subset of T
cell rich tumors fail to respond to immune checkpoint blockade (ICB). We leveraged a …

Spatially organized multicellular immune hubs in human colorectal cancer

K Pelka, M Hofree, JH Chen, S Sarkizova, JD Pirl… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Immune responses to cancer are highly variable, with mismatch repair-deficient (MMRd)
tumors exhibiting more anti-tumor immunity than mismatch repair-proficient (MMRp) tumors …

Neutrophils and emergency granulopoiesis drive immune suppression and an extreme response endotype during sepsis

AJ Kwok, A Allcock, RC Ferreira, E Cano-Gamez… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Sepsis arises from diverse and incompletely understood dysregulated host response
processes following infection that leads to life-threatening organ dysfunction. Here we …

An inflammatory state remodels the immune microenvironment and improves risk stratification in acute myeloid leukemia

A Lasry, B Nadorp, M Fornerod, D Nicolet, H Wu… - Nature cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a hematopoietic malignancy with poor prognosis and
limited treatment options. Here we provide a comprehensive census of the bone marrow …

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 …

Single-cell eQTL models reveal dynamic T cell state dependence of disease loci

A Nathan, S Asgari, K Ishigaki, C Valencia, T Amariuta… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Non-coding genetic variants may cause disease by modulating gene expression. However,
identifying these expression quantitative trait loci (eQTLs) is complicated by differences in …