Towards a complete map of the human long non-coding RNA transcriptome

B Uszczynska-Ratajczak, J Lagarde… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Gene maps, or annotations, enable us to navigate the functional landscape of our genome.
They are a resource upon which virtually all studies depend, from single-gene to genome …

Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium … - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is the most widely cultivated crop on Earth,
contributing about a fifth of the total calories consumed by humans. Consequently, wheat …

Patient-derived organoids model treatment response of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers

G Vlachogiannis, S Hedayat, A Vatsiou, Y Jamin… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Patient-derived organoids (PDOs) have recently emerged as robust preclinical models;
however, their potential to predict clinical outcomes in patients has remained unclear. We …

Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses

FW Li, P Brouwer, L Carretero-Paulet, S Cheng… - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
Ferns are the closest sister group to all seed plants, yet little is known about their genomes
other than that they are generally colossal. Here, we report on the genomes of Azolla …

Repopulated microglia are solely derived from the proliferation of residual microglia after acute depletion

Y Huang, Z Xu, S Xiong, F Sun, G Qin, G Hu… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Newborn microglia rapidly replenish the whole brain after selective elimination of most
microglia (> 99%) in adult mice. Previous studies reported that repopulated microglia were …

Highly parallel direct RNA sequencing on an array of nanopores

DR Garalde, EA Snell, D Jachimowicz, B Sipos… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Sequencing the RNA in a biological sample can unlock a wealth of information, including
the identity of bacteria and viruses, the nuances of alternative splicing or the transcriptional …

Local mutational diversity drives intratumoral immune heterogeneity in non-small cell lung cancer

Q Jia, W Wu, Y Wang, PB Alexander, C Sun… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Combining whole exome sequencing, transcriptome profiling, and T cell repertoire analysis,
we investigate the spatial features of surgically-removed biopsies from multiple loci in tumor …

The NORAD lncRNA assembles a topoisomerase complex critical for genome stability

M Munschauer, CT Nguyen, K Sirokman, CR Hartigan… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The human genome contains thousands of long non-coding RNAs, but specific biological
functions and biochemical mechanisms have been discovered for only about a dozen,,,,–. A …

CHESS: a new human gene catalog curated from thousands of large-scale RNA sequencing experiments reveals extensive transcriptional noise

M Pertea, A Shumate, G Pertea, A Varabyou… - Genome biology, 2018 - Springer
We assembled the sequences from deep RNA sequencing experiments by the Genotype-
Tissue Expression (GTEx) project, to create a new catalog of human genes and transcripts …

Interactions between diet and the intestinal microbiota alter intestinal permeability and colitis severity in mice

SR Llewellyn, GJ Britton, EJ Contijoch, OH Vennaro… - Gastroenterology, 2018 - Elsevier
Background & Aims It is not clear how the complex interactions between diet and the
intestinal microbiota affect development of mucosal inflammation or inflammatory bowel …