The epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity landscape: principles of design and mechanisms of regulation

J Haerinck, S Goossens, G Berx - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity (EMP) enables cells to interconvert between several
states across the epithelial–mesenchymal landscape, thereby acquiring hybrid epithelial …

Skull bone marrow channels as immune gateways to the central nervous system

JA Mazzitelli, FE Pulous, LCD Smyth, Z Kaya… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Decades of research have characterized diverse immune cells surveilling the CNS. More
recently, the discovery of osseous channels (so-called 'skull channels') connecting the …

Single‐cell RNA sequencing in cancer research

Y Zhang, D Wang, M Peng, L Tang, J Ouyang… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - Springer
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), a technology that analyzes transcriptomes of
complex tissues at single-cell levels, can identify differential gene expression and epigenetic …

The epigenetic basis of cellular heterogeneity

B Carter, K Zhao - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell sequencing-based methods for profiling gene transcript levels have revealed
substantial heterogeneity in expression levels among morphologically indistinguishable …

Glioblastoma stem cells: driving resilience through chaos

BC Prager, S Bhargava, V Mahadev, CG Hubert… - Trends in cancer, 2020 - cell.com
Glioblastoma is an aggressive and heterogeneous tumor in which glioblastoma stem cells
(GSCs) are at the apex of an entropic hierarchy and impart devastating therapy resistance …

Single-cell chromatin accessibility reveals principles of regulatory variation

JD Buenrostro, B Wu, UM Litzenburger, D Ruff… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Cell-to-cell variation is a universal feature of life that affects a wide range of biological
phenomena, from developmental plasticity, to tumour heterogeneity. Although recent …

A logical network-based drug-screening platform for Alzheimer's disease representing pathological features of human brain organoids

JC Park, SY Jang, D Lee, J Lee, U Kang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Develo** effective drugs for Alzheimer's disease (AD), the most common cause of
dementia, has been difficult because of complicated pathogenesis. Here, we report an …

DNA methylation disruption reshapes the hematopoietic differentiation landscape

F Izzo, SC Lee, A Poran, R Chaligne, F Gaiti, B Gross… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Mutations in genes involved in DNA methylation (DNAme; for example, TET2 and DNMT3A)
are frequently observed in hematological malignancies,–and clonal hematopoiesis …

Single-cell RNA-seq: advances and future challenges

AE Saliba, AJ Westermann, SA Gorski… - Nucleic acids …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Phenotypically identical cells can dramatically vary with respect to behavior during their
lifespan and this variation is reflected in their molecular composition such as the …

Single cell RNA-sequencing of pluripotent states unlocks modular transcriptional variation

AA Kolodziejczyk, JK Kim, JCH Tsang, T Ilicic… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Embryonic stem cell (ESC) culture conditions are important for maintaining long-term self-
renewal, and they influence cellular pluripotency state. Here, we report single cell RNA …