[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 …

Genetic mosaicism in the human brain: from lineage tracing to neuropsychiatric disorders

S Bizzotto, CA Walsh - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Genetic mosaicism is the result of the accumulation of somatic mutations in the human
genome starting from the first postzygotic cell generation and continuing throughout the …

[HTML][HTML] Clonal dynamics of haematopoiesis across the human lifespan

E Mitchell, M Spencer Chapman, N Williams… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Age-related change in human haematopoiesis causes reduced regenerative capacity,
cytopenias, immune dysfunction and increased risk of blood cancer,–, but the reason for …

[HTML][HTML] De novo detection of somatic mutations in high-throughput single-cell profiling data sets

F Muyas, CM Sauer, JE Valle-Inclán, R Li… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Characterization of somatic mutations at single-cell resolution is essential to study
cancer evolution, clonal mosaicism and cell plasticity. Here, we describe SComatic, an …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering cell states and genealogies of human haematopoiesis

C Weng, F Yu, D Yang, M Poeschla, LA Liggett… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The human blood system is maintained through the differentiation and massive amplification
of a limited number of long-lived haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). Perturbations to this …

[HTML][HTML] Clonal selection of hematopoietic stem cells after gene therapy for sickle cell disease

M Spencer Chapman, AH Cull, MF Ciuculescu… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Gene therapy (GT) provides a potentially curative treatment option for patients with sickle
cell disease (SCD); however, the occurrence of myeloid malignancies in GT clinical trials …

Recent advances in single-cell sequencing technologies

L Wen, F Tang - Precision clinical medicine, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Single-cell omics sequencing was first achieved for the transcriptome in 2009, which was
followed by fast development of technologies for profiling the genome, DNA methylome, 3D …

The evolution of two transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils

MR Stammnitz, K Gori, YM Kwon, E Harry, FJ Martin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Tasmanian devils have spawned two transmissible cancer lineages, named devil facial
tumor 1 (DFT1) and devil facial tumor 2 (DFT2). We investigated the genetic diversity and …

Cellular barcoding to decipher clonal dynamics in disease

VG Sankaran, JS Weissman, LI Zon - Science, 2022 - science.org
Cellular barcodes are distinct DNA sequences that enable one to track specific cells across
time or space. Recent advances in our ability to detect natural or synthetic cellular barcodes …

Systematic investigation of mitochondrial transfer between cancer cells and T cells at single-cell resolution

H Zhang, X Yu, J Ye, H Li, J Hu, Y Tan, Y Fang… - Cancer Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Mitochondria (MT) participate in most metabolic activities of mammalian cells. A near-
unidirectional mitochondrial transfer from T cells to cancer cells was recently observed to" …