The expanding vistas of spatial transcriptomics

L Tian, F Chen, EZ Macosko - Nature Biotechnology, 2023 - nature.com
The formation and maintenance of tissue integrity requires complex, coordinated activities
by thousands of genes and their encoded products. Until recently, transcript levels could …

The emerging landscape of spatial profiling technologies

JR Moffitt, E Lundberg, H Heyn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Improved scale, multiplexing and resolution are establishing spatial nucleic acid and protein
profiling methods as a major pillar for cellular atlas building of complex samples, from …

[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 …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

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 …

SODB facilitates comprehensive exploration of spatial omics data

Z Yuan, W Pan, X Zhao, F Zhao, Z Xu, X Li, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatial omics technologies generate wealthy but highly complex datasets. Here we present
Spatial Omics DataBase (SODB), a web-based platform providing both rich data resources …

[HTML][HTML] Neuronal types in the mouse amygdala and their transcriptional response to fear conditioning

H Hochgerner, S Singh, M Tibi, Z Lin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The amygdala is a brain region primarily associated with emotional response. The use of
genetic markers and single-cell transcriptomics can provide insights into behavior …

The molecular cytoarchitecture of the adult mouse brain

J Langlieb, NS Sachdev, KS Balderrama, NM Nadaf… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The function of the mammalian brain relies upon the specification and spatial positioning of
diversely specialized cell types. Yet, the molecular identities of the cell types and their …

Spatial transcriptomics reveals the distinct organization of mouse prefrontal cortex and neuronal subtypes regulating chronic pain

A Bhattacherjee, C Zhang, BR Watson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The prefrontal cortex (PFC) is a complex brain region that regulates diverse functions
ranging from cognition, emotion and executive action to even pain processing. To decode …

Single-nucleus genomics in outbred rats with divergent cocaine addiction-like behaviors reveals changes in amygdala GABAergic inhibition

JL Zhou, G de Guglielmo, AJ Ho, M Kallupi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The amygdala processes positive and negative valence and contributes to addiction, but the
cell-type-specific gene regulatory programs involved are unknown. We generated an atlas of …