[HTML][HTML] What is a cell type and how to define it?

H Zeng - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Cell types are the basic functional units of an organism. Cell types exhibit diverse
phenotypic properties at multiple levels, making them challenging to define, categorize, and …

Insights into Alzheimer's disease from single-cell genomic approaches

MH Murdock, LH Tsai - Nature neuroscience, 2023 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is an age-related disease pathologically defined by the deposition
of amyloid plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain parenchyma. Single-cell profiling …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution transcriptomic and spatial atlas of cell types in the whole mouse brain

Z Yao, CTJ van Velthoven, M Kunst, M Zhang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The mammalian brain consists of millions to billions of cells that are organized into many cell
types with specific spatial distribution patterns and structural and functional properties …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial epigenome–transcriptome co-profiling of mammalian tissues

D Zhang, Y Deng, P Kukanja, E Agirre, M Bartosovic… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Emerging spatial technologies, including spatial transcriptomics and spatial epigenomics,
are becoming powerful tools for profiling of cellular states in the tissue context,,,–. However …

Dissection of artifactual and confounding glial signatures by single-cell sequencing of mouse and human brain

SE Marsh, AJ Walker, T Kamath, L Dissing-Olesen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A key aspect of nearly all single-cell sequencing experiments is dissociation of intact tissues
into single-cell suspensions. While many protocols have been optimized for optimal cell …

Single-nucleus chromatin accessibility and transcriptomic characterization of Alzheimer's disease

S Morabito, E Miyoshi, N Michael, S Shahin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The gene-regulatory landscape of the brain is highly dynamic in health and disease,
coordinating a menagerie of biological processes across distinct cell types. Here, we …

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 …

CD8+ T cells induce interferon-responsive oligodendrocytes and microglia in white matter aging

T Kaya, N Mattugini, L Liu, H Ji… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
A hallmark of nervous system aging is a decline of white matter volume and function, but the
underlying mechanisms leading to white matter pathology are unknown. In the present …

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 …

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 …