Non-coding RNAs in disease: from mechanisms to therapeutics

K Nemeth, R Bayraktar, M Ferracin… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2024 - nature.com
Non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) are a heterogeneous group of transcripts that, by definition, are
not translated into proteins. Since their discovery, ncRNAs have emerged as important …

RNA sequencing: the teenage years

R Stark, M Grzelak, J Hadfield - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2019 - nature.com
Over the past decade, RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) has become an indispensable tool for
transcriptome-wide analysis of differential gene expression and differential splicing of …

Gut microbial carbohydrate metabolism contributes to insulin resistance

T Takeuchi, T Kubota, Y Nakanishi, H Tsugawa… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Insulin resistance is the primary pathophysiology underlying metabolic syndrome and type 2
diabetes,. Previous metagenomic studies have described the characteristics of gut …

Senescence atlas reveals an aged-like inflamed niche that blunts muscle regeneration

V Moiseeva, A Cisneros, V Sica, O Deryagin, Y Lai… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Tissue regeneration requires coordination between resident stem cells and local niche
cells,. Here we identify that senescent cells are integral components of the skeletal muscle …

SCENIC+: single-cell multiomic inference of enhancers and gene regulatory networks

C Bravo González-Blas, S De Winter, G Hulselmans… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Joint profiling of chromatin accessibility and gene expression in individual cells provides an
opportunity to decipher enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks (GRNs). Here we present …

Psychedelics reopen the social reward learning critical period

R Nardou, E Sawyer, YJ Song, M Wilkinson… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Psychedelics are a broad class of drugs defined by their ability to induce an altered state of
consciousness,. These drugs have been used for millennia in both spiritual and medicinal …

Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

MJ Christmas, IM Kaplow, DP Genereux, MX Dong… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

[HTML][HTML] Platelet-instructed SPP1+ macrophages drive myofibroblast activation in fibrosis in a CXCL4-dependent manner

K Hoeft, GJL Schaefer, H Kim, D Schumacher… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Fibrosis represents the common end stage of chronic organ injury independent of the initial
insult, destroying tissue architecture and driving organ failure. Here we discover a …

The m6A reader IGF2BP2 regulates glutamine metabolism and represents a therapeutic target in acute myeloid leukemia

H Weng, F Huang, Z Yu, Z Chen, E Prince, Y Kang… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
Summary N 6-Methyladenosine (m 6 A) modification and its modulators play critical roles
and show promise as therapeutic targets in human cancers, including acute myeloid …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial proteogenomics reveals distinct and evolutionarily conserved hepatic macrophage niches

M Guilliams, J Bonnardel, B Haest, B Vanderborght… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The liver is the largest solid organ in the body, yet it remains incompletely characterized.
Here we present a spatial proteogenomic atlas of the healthy and obese human and murine …