Engineering organoids

M Hofer, MP Lutolf - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Organoids are in vitro miniaturized and simplified model systems of organs that have gained
enormous interest for modelling tissue development and disease, and for personalized …

Deciphering cell–cell interactions and communication from gene expression

E Armingol, A Officer, O Harismendy… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Cell–cell interactions orchestrate organismal development, homeostasis and single-cell
functions. When cells do not properly interact or improperly decode molecular messages …

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 …

NicheNet: modeling intercellular communication by linking ligands to target genes

R Browaeys, W Saelens, Y Saeys - Nature methods, 2020 - nature.com
Computational methods that model how gene expression of a cell is influenced by
interacting cells are lacking. We present NicheNet (https://github. com/saeyslab/nichenetr), a …

CellPhoneDB: inferring cell–cell communication from combined expression of multi-subunit ligand–receptor complexes

M Efremova, M Vento-Tormo, SA Teichmann… - Nature protocols, 2020 - nature.com
Cell–cell communication mediated by ligand–receptor complexes is critical to coordinating
diverse biological processes, such as development, differentiation and inflammation. To …

Evaluation of cell-cell interaction methods by integrating single-cell RNA sequencing data with spatial information

Z Liu, D Sun, C Wang - Genome Biology, 2022 - Springer
Background Cell-cell interactions are important for information exchange between different
cells, which are the fundamental basis of many biological processes. Recent advances in …

Combined single-cell and spatial transcriptomics reveal the molecular, cellular and spatial bone marrow niche organization

C Baccin, J Al-Sabah, L Velten, PM Helbling… - Nature cell …, 2020 - nature.com
The bone marrow constitutes the primary site for life-long blood production and skeletal
regeneration. However, its cellular and spatial organization remains controversial. Here, we …

Cell stress in cortical organoids impairs molecular subtype specification

A Bhaduri, MG Andrews, W Mancia Leon, D Jung… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Cortical organoids are self-organizing three-dimensional cultures that model features of the
developing human cerebral cortex,. However, the fidelity of organoid models remains …

Single-cell dissection of cellular components and interactions shaping the tumor immune phenotypes in ovarian cancer

M Hornburg, M Desbois, S Lu, Y Guan, AA Lo… - Cancer cell, 2021 - cell.com
Distinct T cell infiltration patterns, ie, immune infiltrated, excluded, and desert, result in
different responses to cancer immunotherapies. However, the key determinants and biology …

Single-cell reconstruction of the early maternal–fetal interface in humans

R Vento-Tormo, M Efremova, RA Botting, MY Turco… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
During early human pregnancy the uterine mucosa transforms into the decidua, into which
the fetal placenta implants and where placental trophoblast cells intermingle and …