Insights gained from single-cell analysis of immune cells in the tumor microenvironment

X Ren, L Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Li… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Understanding tumor immune microenvironments is critical for identifying immune modifiers
of cancer progression and developing cancer immunotherapies. Recent applications of …

Advances and opportunities in single-cell transcriptomics for plant research

C Seyfferth, J Renema, JR Wendrich… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Single-cell approaches are quickly changing our view on biological systems by increasing
the spatiotemporal resolution of our analyses to the level of the individual cell. The field of …

Single-cell RNA-seq reveals fibroblast heterogeneity and increased mesenchymal fibroblasts in human fibrotic skin diseases

CC Deng, YF Hu, DH Zhu, Q Cheng, JJ Gu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Fibrotic skin disease represents a major global healthcare burden, characterized by
fibroblast hyperproliferation and excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix. Fibroblasts …

[HTML][HTML] GABA-receptive microglia selectively sculpt developing inhibitory circuits

E Favuzzi, S Huang, GA Saldi, L Binan, LA Ibrahim… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Microglia, the resident immune cells of the brain, have emerged as crucial regulators of
synaptic refinement and brain wiring. However, whether the remodeling of distinct synapse …

High-accuracy long-read amplicon sequences using unique molecular identifiers with Nanopore or PacBio sequencing

SM Karst, RM Ziels, RH Kirkegaard, EA Sørensen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
High-throughput amplicon sequencing of large genomic regions remains challenging for
short-read technologies. Here, we report a high-throughput amplicon sequencing approach …

Single-cell RNA sequencing analysis: a step-by-step overview

S Slovin, A Carissimo, F Panariello, A Grimaldi… - RNA bioinformatics, 2021 - Springer
Thanks to innovative sample-preparation and sequencing technologies, gene expression in
individual cells can now be measured for thousands of cells in a single experiment. Since its …

Direct comparative analyses of 10X genomics chromium and smart-seq2

X Wang, Y He, Q Zhang, X Ren… - Genomics, Proteomics …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is generally used for profiling transcriptome of
individual cells. The droplet-based 10X Genomics Chromium (10X) approach and the plate …

[HTML][HTML] From bench to bedside: Single-cell analysis for cancer immunotherapy

EF Davis-Marcisak, A Deshpande, GL Stein-O'Brien… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Single-cell technologies are emerging as powerful tools for cancer research. These
technologies characterize the molecular state of each cell within a tumor, enabling new …

Separating measurement and expression models clarifies confusion in single-cell RNA sequencing analysis

A Sarkar, M Stephens - Nature genetics, 2021 - nature.com
The high proportion of zeros in typical single-cell RNA sequencing datasets has led to
widespread but inconsistent use of terminology such as dropout and missing data. Here, we …

Single-cell transcriptomics: current methods and challenges in data acquisition and analysis

A Adil, V Kumar, AT Jan, M Asger - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Rapid cost drops and advancements in next-generation sequencing have made profiling of
cells at individual level a conventional practice in scientific laboratories worldwide. Single …