The immunoregulatory landscape of human tuberculosis granulomas

EF McCaffrey, M Donato, L Keren, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tuberculosis (TB) in humans is characterized by formation of immune-rich granulomas in
infected tissues, the architecture and composition of which are thought to affect disease …

A survey of gene expression meta-analysis: methods and applications

D Toro-Domínguez, JA Villatoro-Garciá… - Briefings in …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The increasing use of high-throughput gene expression quantification technologies over the
last two decades and the fact that most of the published studies are stored in public …

Advanced model systems and tools for basic and translational human immunology

LE Wagar, RM DiFazio, MM Davis - Genome medicine, 2018 - Springer
There are fundamental differences between humans and the animals we typically use to
study the immune system. We have learned much from genetically manipulated and inbred …

Beyond experiments

E Diener, R Northcott, MJ Zyphur… - Perspectives on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
It is often claimed that only experiments can support strong causal inferences and therefore
they should be privileged in the behavioral sciences. We disagree. Overvaluing experiments …

Increased monocyte count as a cellular biomarker for poor outcomes in fibrotic diseases: a retrospective, multicentre cohort study

MKD Scott, K Quinn, Q Li, R Carroll… - The Lancet …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background There is an urgent need for biomarkers to better stratify patients with idiopathic
pulmonary fibrosis by risk for lung transplantation allocation who have the same clinical …

Noninvasive blood tests for fetal development predict gestational age and preterm delivery

TTM Ngo, MN Moufarrej, MLH Rasmussen… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Noninvasive blood tests that provide information about fetal development and gestational
age could potentially improve prenatal care. Ultrasound, the current gold standard, is not …

A community approach to mortality prediction in sepsis via gene expression analysis

TE Sweeney, TM Perumal, R Henao, M Nichols… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Improved risk stratification and prognosis prediction in sepsis is a critical unmet need.
Clinical severity scores and available assays such as blood lactate reflect global illness …

Leveraging heterogeneity across multiple datasets increases cell-mixture deconvolution accuracy and reduces biological and technical biases

F Vallania, A Tam, S Lofgren, S Schaffert… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
In silico quantification of cell proportions from mixed-cell transcriptomics data
(deconvolution) requires a reference expression matrix, called basis matrix. We hypothesize …

Interpretation of biological experiments changes with evolution of the Gene Ontology and its annotations

A Tomczak, JM Mortensen, R Winnenburg, C Liu… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Gene Ontology (GO) enrichment analysis is ubiquitously used for interpreting high
throughput molecular data and generating hypotheses about underlying biological …

Gene annotation bias impedes biomedical research

WA Haynes, A Tomczak, P Khatri - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
We found tremendous inequality across gene and protein annotation resources. We
observed that this bias leads biomedical researchers to focus on richly annotated genes …