Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: deciphering brain complexity in health and disease

M Piwecka, N Rajewsky, A Rybak-Wolf - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2023 - nature.com
In the past decade, single-cell technologies have proliferated and improved from their
technically challenging beginnings to become common laboratory methods capable of …

The emerging landscape of spatial profiling technologies

JR Moffitt, E Lundberg, H Heyn - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
Improved scale, multiplexing and resolution are establishing spatial nucleic acid and protein
profiling methods as a major pillar for cellular atlas building of complex samples, from …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution transcriptomic and spatial atlas of cell types in the whole mouse brain

Z Yao, CTJ van Velthoven, M Kunst, M Zhang… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The mammalian brain consists of millions to billions of cells that are organized into many cell
types with specific spatial distribution patterns and structural and functional properties …

Neuronal wiring diagram of an adult brain

S Dorkenwald, A Matsliah, AR Sterling, P Schlegel… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Connections between neurons can be mapped by acquiring and analysing electron
microscopic brain images. In recent years, this approach has been applied to chunks of …

Molecularly defined and spatially resolved cell atlas of the whole mouse brain

M Zhang, X Pan, W Jung, AR Halpern, SW Eichhorn… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
In mammalian brains, millions to billions of cells form complex interaction networks to enable
a wide range of functions. The enormous diversity and intricate organization of cells have …

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 …

Whole-brain annotation and multi-connectome cell ty** of Drosophila

P Schlegel, Y Yin, AS Bates, S Dorkenwald, K Eichler… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has emerged as a key model organism in
neuroscience, in large part due to the concentration of collaboratively generated molecular …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated multimodal cell atlas of Alzheimer's disease

MI Gabitto, KJ Travaglini, VM Rachleff, ES Kaplan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia in older adults. Although AD
progression is characterized by stereotyped accumulation of proteinopathies, the affected …

Brain endothelial GSDMD activation mediates inflammatory BBB breakdown

C Wei, W Jiang, R Wang, H Zhong, H He, X Gao… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The blood–brain barrier (BBB) protects the central nervous system from infections or harmful
substances; its impairment can lead to or exacerbate various diseases of the central nervous …

Atlas of the aging mouse brain reveals white matter as vulnerable foci

O Hahn, AG Foltz, M Atkins, B Kedir, P Moran-Losada… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Aging is the key risk factor for cognitive decline, yet the molecular changes underlying brain
aging remain poorly understood. Here, we conducted spatiotemporal RNA sequencing of …