[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] Early human embryonic development: Blastocyst formation to gastrulation

J Rossant, PPL Tam - Developmental cell, 2022 - cell.com
There has been recent renewed interest in studying human early embryonic development.
The advent of improved culture conditions to maintain blastocysts in vitro for an extended …

[HTML][HTML] Microfluidics-free single-cell genomics with templated emulsification

IC Clark, KM Fontanez, RH Meltzer, Y Xue… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Current single-cell RNA-sequencing approaches have limitations that stem from the
microfluidic devices or fluid handling steps required for sample processing. We develop a …

[HTML][HTML] Cells of the human intestinal tract mapped across space and time

R Elmentaite, N Kumasaka, K Roberts, A Fleming… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The cellular landscape of the human intestinal tract is dynamic throughout life, developing in
utero and changing in response to functional requirements and environmental exposures …

Genetics of human brain development

Y Zhou, H Song, G Ming - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Brain development in humans is achieved through precise spatiotemporal genetic control,
the mechanisms of which remain largely elusive. Recently, integration of technological …

[HTML][HTML] Human-specific genetics: new tools to explore the molecular and cellular basis of human evolution

AA Pollen, U Kilik, CB Lowe, JG Camp - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Our ancestors acquired morphological, cognitive and metabolic modifications that enabled
humans to colonize diverse habitats, develop extraordinary technologies and reshape the …

[HTML][HTML] Organoids are not organs: sources of variation and misinformation in organoid biology

KB Jensen, MH Little - Stem Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
In the past decade, the term organoid has moved from obscurity to common use to describe
a 3D in vitro cellular model of a tissue that recapitulates structural and functional elements of …

Generation and characterization of hair-bearing skin organoids from human pluripotent stem cells

J Lee, WH Van Der Valk, SA Serdy, CC Deakin, J Kim… - Nature protocols, 2022 - nature.com
Human skin uses millions of hairs and glands distributed across the body surface to function
as an external barrier, thermoregulator and stimuli sensor. The large-scale generation of …

What is a cell type?

JS Fleck, JG Camp, B Treutlein - Science, 2023 - science.org
International efforts are underway to provide a comprehensive survey of cells across the
human life span (,). These efforts assign cell “types” on the basis of a set of information-rich …

ConsensusPathDB 2022: molecular interactions update as a resource for network biology

A Kamburov, R Herwig - Nucleic acids research, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Molecular interactions are key drivers of biological function. Providing interaction resources
to the research community is important since they allow functional interpretation and network …