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 …

Identification, discrimination and heterogeneity of fibroblasts

U Lendahl, L Muhl, C Betsholtz - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Fibroblasts, the principal cell type of connective tissue, secrete extracellular matrix
components during tissue development, homeostasis, repair and disease. Despite this …

Spatiotemporal analysis of human intestinal development at single-cell resolution

D Fawkner-Corbett, A Antanaviciute, K Parikh… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Development of the human intestine is not well understood. Here, we link single-cell RNA
sequencing and spatial transcriptomics to characterize intestinal morphogenesis through …

Macrophage and neutrophil heterogeneity at single-cell spatial resolution in human inflammatory bowel disease

A Garrido-Trigo, AM Corraliza, M Veny, I Dotti… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases with
perplexing heterogeneity in disease manifestation and response to treatment. While the …

Cells of the human intestinal tract mapped across space and time

R Elmentaite, N Kumasaka, K Roberts, A Fleming… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The cellular landscape of the human intestinal tract is dynamic throughout life, develo** in
utero and changing in response to functional requirements and environmental exposures …

A roadmap for the human developmental cell atlas

M Haniffa, D Taylor, S Linnarsson, BJ Aronow… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract The Human Developmental Cell Atlas (HDCA) initiative, which is part of the Human
Cell Atlas, aims to create a comprehensive reference map of cells during development. This …

[HTML][HTML] A proximal-to-distal survey of healthy adult human small intestine and colon epithelium by single-cell transcriptomics

J Burclaff, RJ Bliton, KA Breau, MT Ok… - Cellular and molecular …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background & Aims Single-cell transcriptomics offer unprecedented resolution of tissue
function at the cellular level, yet studies analyzing healthy adult human small intestine and …

Charting human development using a multi-endodermal organ atlas and organoid models

Q Yu, U Kilik, EM Holloway, YH Tsai, C Harmel, A Wu… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Organs are composed of diverse cell types that traverse transient states during
organogenesis. To interrogate this diversity during human development, we generate a …

Unsupervised removal of systematic background noise from droplet-based single-cell experiments using CellBender

SJ Fleming, MD Chaffin, A Arduini, AD Akkad… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Droplet-based single-cell assays, including single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq),
single-nucleus RNA sequencing (snRNA-seq) and cellular indexing of transcriptomes and …

A spatial expression atlas of the adult human proximal small intestine

Y Harnik, O Yakubovsky, R Hoefflin, R Novoselsky… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The mouse small intestine shows profound variability in gene expression along the crypt–
villus axis,. Whether similar spatial heterogeneity exists in the adult human gut remains …