Long non-coding RNAs: definitions, functions, challenges and recommendations

JS Mattick, PP Amaral, P Carninci… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Genes specifying long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) occupy a large fraction of the genomes
of complex organisms. The term 'lncRNAs' encompasses RNA polymerase I (Pol I), Pol II …

Single‐cell RNA sequencing technologies and applications: A brief overview

D Jovic, X Liang, H Zeng, L Lin, F Xu… - Clinical and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐cell RNA sequencing (scRNA‐seq) technology has become the state‐of‐the‐art
approach for unravelling the heterogeneity and complexity of RNA transcripts within …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Exploring tissue architecture using spatial transcriptomics

A Rao, D Barkley, GS França, I Yanai - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Deciphering the principles and mechanisms by which gene activity orchestrates complex
cellular arrangements in multicellular organisms has far-reaching implications for research …

Spatial components of molecular tissue biology

G Palla, DS Fischer, A Regev, FJ Theis - Nature Biotechnology, 2022 - nature.com
Methods for profiling RNA and protein expression in a spatially resolved manner are rapidly
evolving, making it possible to comprehensively characterize cells and tissues in health and …

Integrating single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to elucidate intercellular tissue dynamics

SK Longo, MG Guo, AL Ji, PA Khavari - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) identifies cell subpopulations within tissue but
does not capture their spatial distribution nor reveal local networks of intercellular …

Engineering the multiscale complexity of vascular networks

C O'Connor, E Brady, Y Zheng, E Moore… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The survival of vertebrate organisms depends on highly regulated delivery of oxygen and
nutrients through vascular networks that pervade nearly all tissues in the body …

A human cell atlas of fetal gene expression

J Cao, DR O'day, HA Pliner, PD Kingsley, M Deng… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION A reference atlas of human cell types is a major goal for the field. Here, we
set out to generate single-cell atlases of both gene expression (this study) and chromatin …