Conservation and divergence of cortical cell organization in human and mouse revealed by MERFISH

R Fang, C Xia, JL Close, M Zhang, J He, Z Huang… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The human cerebral cortex has tremendous cellular diversity. How different cell types are
organized in the human cortex and how cellular organization varies across species remain …

[HTML][HTML] Human neocortical expansion involves glutamatergic neuron diversification

J Berg, SA Sorensen, JT Ting, JA Miller, T Chartrand… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The neocortex is disproportionately expanded in human compared with mouse,, both in its
total volume relative to subcortical structures and in the proportion occupied by …

[HTML][HTML] A transcriptomic atlas of mouse cerebellar cortex comprehensively defines cell types

V Kozareva, C Martin, T Osorno, S Rudolph, C Guo… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The cerebellar cortex is a well-studied brain structure with diverse roles in motor learning,
coordination, cognition and autonomic regulation. However, a complete inventory of …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell epigenomics reveals mechanisms of human cortical development

RS Ziffra, CN Kim, JM Ross, A Wilfert, TN Turner… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
During mammalian development, differences in chromatin state coincide with cellular
differentiation and reflect changes in the gene regulatory landscape. In the developing brain …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of COVID-19 on the nervous system

C Iadecola, J Anrather, H Kamel - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Neurological complications have emerged as a significant cause of morbidity and mortality
in the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Beside respiratory insufficiency, many hospitalized …

Architectures of neuronal circuits

L Luo - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND The human brain contains about 100 billion neurons, each of which makes
thousands of synaptic connections. Although individual neurons can themselves be …

Connectomic comparison of mouse and human cortex

S Loomba, J Straehle, V Gangadharan, N Heike… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The human cerebral cortex houses 1000 times more neurons than that of the cerebral cortex
of a mouse, but the possible differences in synaptic circuits between these species are still …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial transcriptomics and in situ sequencing to study Alzheimer's disease

WT Chen, A Lu, K Craessaerts, B Pavie, CS Frigerio… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Although complex inflammatory-like alterations are observed around the amyloid plaques of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), little is known about the molecular changes and cellular …

Genome-wide meta-analysis, fine-mapping and integrative prioritization implicate new Alzheimer's disease risk genes

J Schwartzentruber, S Cooper, JZ Liu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies have discovered numerous genomic loci associated with
Alzheimer's disease (AD); yet the causal genes and variants are incompletely identified. We …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …