[HTML][HTML] Impact of the Human Cell Atlas on medicine

JE Rood, A Maartens, A Hupalowska, SA Teichmann… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Single-cell atlases promise to provide a 'missing link'between genes, diseases and
therapies. By identifying the specific cell types, states, programs and contexts where disease …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

Cross-tissue immune cell analysis reveals tissue-specific features in humans

C Domínguez Conde, C Xu, LB Jarvis, DB Rainbow… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Despite their crucial role in health and disease, our knowledge of immune cells within
human tissues remains limited. We surveyed the immune compartment of 16 tissues from 12 …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell genomic profiling of human dopamine neurons identifies a population that selectively degenerates in Parkinson's disease

T Kamath, A Abdulraouf, SJ Burris, J Langlieb… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The loss of dopamine (DA) neurons within the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNpc) is a
defining pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease (PD). Nevertheless, the molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative cellular analysis of motor cortex in human, marmoset and mouse

TE Bakken, NL Jorstad, Q Hu, BB Lake, W Tian… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The primary motor cortex (M1) is essential for voluntary fine-motor control and is functionally
conserved across mammals. Here, using high-throughput transcriptomic and epigenomic …

Molecular landscapes of human hippocampal immature neurons across lifespan

Y Zhou, Y Su, S Li, BC Kennedy, DY Zhang, AM Bond… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Immature dentate granule cells (imGCs) arising from adult hippocampal neurogenesis
contribute to plasticity and unique brain functions in rodents, and are dysregulated in …

Genome-wide meta-analysis of insomnia prioritizes genes associated with metabolic and psychiatric pathways

K Watanabe, PR Jansen, JE Savage, P Nandakumar… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Insomnia is a heritable, highly prevalent sleep disorder for which no sufficient treatment
currently exists. Previous genome-wide association studies with up to 1.3 million subjects …

[HTML][HTML] Zero-preserving imputation of single-cell RNA-seq data

GC Linderman, J Zhao, M Roulis, P Bielecki… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A key challenge in analyzing single cell RNA-sequencing data is the large number of false
zeros, where genes actually expressed in a given cell are incorrectly measured as …

Construction of a human cell landscape at single-cell level

X Han, Z Zhou, L Fei, H Sun, R Wang, Y Chen, H Chen… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Single-cell analysis is a valuable tool for dissecting cellular heterogeneity in complex
systems. However, a comprehensive single-cell atlas has not been achieved for humans …

Non-neuronal expression of SARS-CoV-2 entry genes in the olfactory system suggests mechanisms underlying COVID-19-associated anosmia

DH Brann, T Tsukahara, C Weinreb, M Lipovsek… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Altered olfactory function is a common symptom of COVID-19, but its etiology is unknown. A
key question is whether SARS-CoV-2 (CoV-2)–the causal agent in COVID-19–affects …