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 …

Fibrosis: from mechanisms to medicines

NC Henderson, F Rieder, TA Wynn - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Fibrosis can affect any organ and is responsible for up to 45% of all deaths in the
industrialized world. It has long been thought to be relentlessly progressive and irreversible …

Kidney fibrosis: from mechanisms to therapeutic medicines

R Huang, P Fu, L Ma - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2023 - nature.com
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is estimated to affect 10–14% of global population. Kidney
fibrosis, characterized by excessive extracellular matrix deposition leading to scarring, is a …

Lupus nephritis

HJ Anders, R Saxena, M Zhao, I Parodis… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2020 - nature.com
Lupus nephritis (LN) is a form of glomerulonephritis that constitutes one of the most severe
organ manifestations of the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Most …

Single-cell analysis highlights differences in druggable pathways underlying adaptive or fibrotic kidney regeneration

MS Balzer, T Doke, YW Yang, DL Aldridge… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The kidney has tremendous capacity to repair after acute injury, however, pathways guiding
adaptive and fibrotic repair are poorly understood. We developed a model of adaptive and …

Pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus: risks, mechanisms and therapeutic targets

MK Crow - Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2023 - ard.bmj.com
Research elucidating the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has defined
two critical families of mediators, type I interferon (IFN-I) and autoantibodies targeting nucleic …

Fast, sensitive and accurate integration of single-cell data with Harmony

I Korsunsky, N Millard, J Fan, K Slowikowski, F Zhang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The emerging diversity of single-cell RNA-seq datasets allows for the full transcriptional
characterization of cell types across a wide variety of biological and clinical conditions …

Autoimmunity and organ damage in systemic lupus erythematosus

GC Tsokos - Nature immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Impressive progress has been made over the last several years toward understanding how
almost every aspect of the immune system contributes to the expression of systemic …

Confronting false discoveries in single-cell differential expression

JW Squair, M Gautier, C Kathe, MA Anderson… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Differential expression analysis in single-cell transcriptomics enables the dissection of cell-
type-specific responses to perturbations such as disease, trauma, or experimental …

Interferon target-gene expression and epigenomic signatures in health and disease

FJ Barrat, MK Crow, LB Ivashkiv - Nature immunology, 2019 - nature.com
Multiple type I interferons and interferon-γ (IFN-γ) are expressed under physiological
conditions and are increased by stress and infections, and in autoinflammatory and …