[HTML][HTML] What is a cell type and how to define it?

H Zeng - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cell types are the basic functional units of an organism. Cell types exhibit diverse
phenotypic properties at multiple levels, making them challenging to define, categorize, and …

Characterizing cis-regulatory elements using single-cell epigenomics

S Preissl, KJ Gaulton, B Ren - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Cell type-specific gene expression patterns and dynamics during development or in disease
are controlled by cis-regulatory elements (CREs), such as promoters and enhancers …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution transcriptomic and spatial atlas of cell types in the whole mouse brain

Z Yao, CTJ van Velthoven, M Kunst, M Zhang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The mammalian brain consists of millions to billions of cells that are organized into many cell
types with specific spatial distribution patterns and structural and functional properties …

Multi-omics single-cell data integration and regulatory inference with graph-linked embedding

ZJ Cao, G Gao - Nature Biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Despite the emergence of experimental methods for simultaneous measurement of multiple
omics modalities in single cells, most single-cell datasets include only one modality. A major …

Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse

TE Bakken, NL Jorstad, Q Hu, BB Lake, W Tian… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The primary motor cortex (M1) is essential for voluntary fine-motor control and is functionally
conserved across mammals. Here, using high-throughput transcriptomic and epigenomic …

Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain

SE Marsh, AJ Walker, T Kamath, L Dissing-Olesen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A key aspect of nearly all single-cell sequencing experiments is dissociation of intact tissues
into single-cell suspensions. While many protocols have been optimized for optimal cell …

A multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian primary motor cortex

Principal manuscript editors, Analysis coordination… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Here we report the generation of a multimodal cell census and atlas of the mammalian
primary motor cortex as the initial product of the BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network …

Molecularly defined and spatially resolved cell atlas of the whole mouse brain

M Zhang, X Pan, W Jung, AR Halpern, SW Eichhorn… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In mammalian brains, millions to billions of cells form complex interaction networks to enable
a wide range of functions. The enormous diversity and intricate organization of cells have …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially resolved cell atlas of the mouse primary motor cortex by MERFISH

M Zhang, SW Eichhorn, B Zingg, Z Yao, K Cotter… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
A mammalian brain is composed of numerous cell types organized in an intricate manner to
form functional neural circuits. Single-cell RNA sequencing allows systematic identification …

HypoMap—a unified single-cell gene expression atlas of the murine hypothalamus

L Steuernagel, BYH Lam, P Klemm, GKC Dowsett… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The hypothalamus plays a key role in coordinating fundamental body functions. Despite
recent progress in single-cell technologies, a unified catalog and molecular characterization …