[PDF][PDF] 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 …

Backpropagation and the brain

TP Lillicrap, A Santoro, L Marris, CJ Akerman… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
During learning, the brain modifies synapses to improve behaviour. In the cortex, synapses
are embedded within multilayered networks, making it difficult to determine the effect of an …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial epigenome–transcriptome co-profiling of mammalian tissues

D Zhang, Y Deng, P Kukanja, E Agirre, M Bartosovic… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Emerging spatial technologies, including spatial transcriptomics and spatial epigenomics,
are becoming powerful tools for profiling of cellular states in the tissue context,,,–. However …

Benchmarking spatial and single-cell transcriptomics integration methods for transcript distribution prediction and cell type deconvolution

B Li, W Zhang, C Guo, H Xu, L Li, M Fang, Y Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Spatial transcriptomics approaches have substantially advanced our capacity to detect the
spatial distribution of RNA transcripts in tissues, yet it remains challenging to characterize …

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 …

SCENIC+: single-cell multiomic inference of enhancers and gene regulatory networks

C Bravo González-Blas, S De Winter, G Hulselmans… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in individual cells provides an
opportunity to decipher enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks (GRNs). Here we present …

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular and spatial signatures of mouse brain aging at single-cell resolution

WE Allen, TR Blosser, ZA Sullivan, C Dulac, X Zhuang - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
The diversity and complex organization of cells in the brain have hindered systematic
characterization of age-related changes in its cellular and molecular architecture, limiting …

Morphological diversity of single neurons in molecularly defined cell types

H Peng, P Xie, L Liu, X Kuang, Y Wang, L Qu, H Gong… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Dendritic and axonal morphology reflects the input and output of neurons and is a defining
feature of neuronal types,, yet our knowledge of its diversity remains limited. Here, to …