Recent advances in droplet microfluidics for single-cell analysis

Z Jiang, H Shi, X Tang, J Qin - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2023 - Elsevier
Single-cell manipulation and analysis is essential for studying many fundamental biological
processes and discovering cellular heterogeneity. Multi-parameter studies of intercellular …

Eleven grand challenges in single-cell data science

D Lähnemann, J Köster, E Szczurek, DJ McCarthy… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …

CellRank 2: unified fate map** in multiview single-cell data

P Weiler, M Lange, M Klein, D Pe'er, F Theis - Nature Methods, 2024 - nature.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing allows us to model cellular state dynamics and fate decisions
using expression similarity or RNA velocity to reconstruct state-change trajectories; however …

[HTML][HTML] Dendritic cell type 3 arises from Ly6C+ monocyte-dendritic cell progenitors

Z Liu, H Wang, Z Li, RJ Dress, Y Zhu, S Zhang… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Conventional dendritic cells (cDCs) are professional antigen-presenting cells that control the
adaptive immune response. Their subsets and developmental origins have been intensively …

Proper acquisition of cell class identity in organoids allows definition of fate specification programs of the human cerebral cortex

A Uzquiano, AJ Kedaigle, M Pigoni, B Paulsen… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Realizing the full utility of brain organoids to study human development requires
understanding whether organoids precisely replicate endogenous cellular and molecular …

Single-cell analysis of shared signatures and transcriptional diversity during zebrafish development

A Sur, Y Wang, P Capar, G Margolin, MK Prochaska… - Developmental Cell, 2023 - cell.com
During development, animals generate distinct cell populations with specific identities,
functions, and morphologies. We mapped transcriptionally distinct populations across …

Molecular logic of cellular diversification in the mouse cerebral cortex

DJ Di Bella, E Habibi, RR Stickels, G Scalia, J Brown… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The mammalian cerebral cortex has an unparalleled diversity of cell types, which are
generated during development through a series of temporally orchestrated events that are …

Modular, efficient and constant-memory single-cell RNA-seq preprocessing

P Melsted, AS Booeshaghi, L Liu, F Gao, L Lu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We describe a workflow for preprocessing of single-cell RNA-sequencing data that balances
efficiency and accuracy. Our workflow is based on the kallisto and bustools programs, and is …

Single-cell analyses inform mechanisms of myeloid-targeted therapies in colon cancer

L Zhang, Z Li, KM Skrzypczynska, Q Fang, W Zhang… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is a powerful tool for defining cellular diversity in
tumors, but its application toward dissecting mechanisms underlying immune-modulating …

A single-cell transcriptome atlas profiles early organogenesis in human embryos

Y Xu, T Zhang, Q Zhou, M Hu, Y Qi, Y Xue, Y Nie… - Nature cell …, 2023 - nature.com
The early window of human embryogenesis is largely a black box for developmental
biologists. Here we probed the cellular diversity of 4–6 week human embryos when …