Applications of single-cell RNA sequencing in drug discovery and development

B Van de Sande, JS Lee, E Mutasa-Gottgens… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2023 - nature.com
Single-cell technologies, particularly single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) methods,
together with associated computational tools and the growing availability of public data …

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 …

Cycling cancer persister cells arise from lineages with distinct programs

Y Oren, M Tsabar, MS Cuoco, L Amir-Zilberstein… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Non-genetic mechanisms have recently emerged as important drivers of cancer therapy
failure, where some cancer cells can enter a reversible drug-tolerant persister state in …

RNA sequencing: new technologies and applications in cancer research

M Hong, S Tao, L Zhang, LT Diao, X Huang… - Journal of hematology & …, 2020 - Springer
Over the past few decades, RNA sequencing has significantly progressed, becoming a
paramount approach for transcriptome profiling. The revolution from bulk RNA sequencing …

Ultra-high-throughput single-cell RNA sequencing and perturbation screening with combinatorial fluidic indexing

P Datlinger, AF Rendeiro, T Boenke, M Senekowitsch… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Cell atlas projects and high-throughput perturbation screens require single-cell sequencing
at a scale that is challenging with current technology. To enable cost-effective single-cell …

Gradient of developmental and injury response transcriptional states defines functional vulnerabilities underpinning glioblastoma heterogeneity

LM Richards, OKN Whitley, G MacLeod, FMG Cavalli… - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Glioblastomas harbor diverse cell populations, including rare glioblastoma stem cells
(GSCs) that drive tumorigenesis. To characterize functional diversity within this population …

Pan-cancer single-cell RNA-seq identifies recurring programs of cellular heterogeneity

GS Kinker, AC Greenwald, R Tal, Z Orlova, MS Cuoco… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Cultured cell lines are the workhorse of cancer research, but the extent to which they
recapitulate the heterogeneity observed among malignant cells in tumors is unclear. Here …

Massively parallel phenotyping of coding variants in cancer with Perturb-seq

O Ursu, JT Neal, E Shea, PI Thakore… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Genome sequencing studies have identified millions of somatic variants in cancer, but it
remains challenging to predict the phenotypic impact of most. Experimental approaches to …

VEGA is an interpretable generative model for inferring biological network activity in single-cell transcriptomics

L Seninge, I Anastopoulos, H Ding, J Stuart - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Deep learning architectures such as variational autoencoders have revolutionized the
analysis of transcriptomics data. However, the latent space of these variational …

Morphology and gene expression profiling provide complementary information for mapping cell state

GP Way, T Natoli, A Adeboye, L Litichevskiy, A Yang… - Cell systems, 2022 - cell.com
Morphological and gene expression profiling can cost-effectively capture thousands of
features in thousands of samples across perturbations by disease, mutation, or drug …