The advent of immune stimulating CAFs in cancer

M Tsoumakidou - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
The theory that cancer-associated fibroblasts (CAFs) are immunosuppressive cells has
prevailed throughout the past decade. However, recent high-throughput, high-resolution …

Cellular barcoding to decipher clonal dynamics in disease

VG Sankaran, JS Weissman, LI Zon - Science, 2022 - science.org
Cellular barcodes are distinct DNA sequences that enable one to track specific cells across
time or space. Recent advances in our ability to detect natural or synthetic cellular barcodes …

Single-cell lineage capture across genomic modalities with CellTag-multi reveals fate-specific gene regulatory changes

K **dal, MT Adil, N Yamaguchi, X Yang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Complex gene regulatory mechanisms underlie differentiation and reprogramming.
Contemporary single-cell lineage-tracing (scLT) methods use expressed, heritable DNA …

Map** human adult hippocampal neurogenesis with single-cell transcriptomics: reconciling controversy or fueling the debate?

G Tosoni, D Ayyildiz, J Bryois, W Macnair… - Neuron, 2023 - cell.com
The notion of exploiting the regenerative potential of the human brain in physiological aging
or neurological diseases represents a particularly attractive alternative to conventional …

CellOracle: Dissecting cell identity via network inference and in silico gene perturbation

K Kamimoto, CM Hoffmann, SA Morris - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Cell identity is governed by Gene Regulatory Networks (GRNs), a complex system of
molecular interactions resulting in the precise spatial and temporal regulation of gene …

Single-cell analysis of neonatal HSC ontogeny reveals gradual and uncoordinated transcriptional reprogramming that begins before birth

Y Li, W Kong, W Yang, RM Patel, EB Casey… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
Fetal and adult hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) have distinct proliferation rates, lineage
biases, gene expression profiles, and gene dependencies. Although these differences are …

Gene regulatory network reconfiguration in direct lineage reprogramming

K Kamimoto, MT Adil, K **dal, CM Hoffmann, W Kong… - Stem Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
In direct lineage conversion, transcription factor (TF) overexpression reconfigures gene
regulatory networks (GRNs) to reprogram cell identity. We previously developed CellOracle …

Topological and geometric analysis of cell states in single-cell transcriptomic data

T Huynh, Z Cang - Briefings in Bioinformatics, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) enables dissecting cellular heterogeneity in
tissues, resulting in numerous biological discoveries. Various computational methods have …

Targeting the Tumor-Tumor microenvironment crosstalk

SS Badve, Y Gökmen-Polar - Expert opinion on therapeutic targets, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Cancer development and progression is a complex process influenced by co-
evolution of the cancer cells and their microenvironment. However, traditional anti-cancer …

Lmo4 synergizes with Fezf2 to promote direct in vivo reprogramming of upper layer cortical neurons and cortical glia towards deep-layer neuron identities

T Felske, C Tocco, S Péron, K Harb, C Alfano… - PLoS …, 2023 - journals.plos.org
In vivo direct neuronal reprogramming relies on the implementation of an exogenous
transcriptional program allowing to achieve conversion of a particular neuronal or glial cell …