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 …

Epigenetic regulation of T cell exhaustion

JA Belk, B Daniel, AT Satpathy - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Chronic antigen stimulation during viral infections and cancer can lead to T cell exhaustion,
which is characterized by reduced effector function and proliferation, and the expression of …

Transfer learning enables predictions in network biology

CV Theodoris, L Xiao, A Chopra, MD Chaffin… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Mapping gene networks requires large amounts of transcriptomic data to learn the
connections between genes, which impedes discoveries in settings with limited data …

Dictionary learning for integrative, multimodal and scalable single-cell analysis

Y Hao, T Stuart, MH Kowalski, S Choudhary… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Mapping single-cell sequencing profiles to comprehensive reference datasets provides a
powerful alternative to unsupervised analysis. However, most reference datasets are …

Human distal lung maps and lineage hierarchies reveal a bipotent progenitor

P Kadur Lakshminarasimha Murthy, V Sontake, A Tata… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Mapping the spatial distribution and molecular identity of constituent cells is essential for
understanding tissue dynamics in health and disease. We lack a comprehensive map of …

Human distal airways contain a multipotent secretory cell that can regenerate alveoli

MC Basil, FL Cardenas-Diaz, JJ Kathiriya, MP Morley… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The human lung differs substantially from its mouse counterpart, resulting in a distinct distal
airway architecture affected by disease pathology in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease …

SARS-CoV-2 infection of the oral cavity and saliva

N Huang, P Pérez, T Kato, Y Mikami, K Okuda… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Despite signs of infection—including taste loss, dry mouth and mucosal lesions such as
ulcerations, enanthema and macules—the involvement of the oral cavity in coronavirus …

A spatially resolved atlas of the human lung characterizes a gland-associated immune niche

E Madissoon, AJ Oliver, V Kleshchevnikov… - Nature Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell transcriptomics has allowed unprecedented resolution of cell types/states in the
human lung, but their spatial context is less well defined. To (re) define tissue architecture of …

Single-nucleus cross-tissue molecular reference maps toward understanding disease gene function

G Eraslan, E Drokhlyansky, S Anand, E Fiskin… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding gene function and regulation in homeostasis and disease requires
knowledge of the cellular and tissue contexts in which genes are expressed. Here, we …

COVID-19 severity correlates with airway epithelium–immune cell interactions identified by single-cell analysis

RL Chua, S Lukassen, S Trump, BP Hennig… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
To investigate the immune response and mechanisms associated with severe coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19), we performed single-cell RNA sequencing on nasopharyngeal …