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ReviewCommunications biology2020

From whole-mount to single-cell spatial assessment of gene expression in 3D.

Lisa N Waylen, Hieu T Nim, Luciano G Martelotto, Mirana Ramialison

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Review in Communications biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 75 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

75 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Lisa N WaylenAustralian Regenerative Medicine Institute and Systems Biology Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Hieu T NimAustralian Regenerative Medicine Institute and Systems Biology Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Luciano G MartelottoSingle Cell Core Laboratory, Harvard Medical School, Department of System Biology, Boston, MA, USA.
Mirana RamialisonAustralian Regenerative Medicine Institute and Systems Biology Institute, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia. mirana.ramialison@monash.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-9037-0886

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unravelling spatio-temporal patterns of gene expression is crucial to understanding core biological principles from embryogenesis to disease. Here we review emerging technologies, providing automated, high-throughput, spatially resolved quantitative gene expression data. Novel techniques expand on current benchmark protocols, expediting their incorporation into ongoing research. These approaches digitally reconstruct patterns of embryonic expression in three dimensions, and have successfully identified novel domains of expression, cell types, and tissue features. Such technologies pave the way for unbiased and exhaustive recapitulation of gene expression levels in spatial and quantitative terms, promoting understanding of the molecular origin of developmental defects, and improving medical diagnostics.

Indexed as

TranscriptomeAnimalsEmbryonic DevelopmentGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansMolecular ImagingOrgan SpecificitySingle-Cell Analysis

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PMID33097816
PMCPMC7584572

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