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ReviewRNA biology2021

Elucidating the cellular dynamics of the brain with single-cell RNA sequencing.

Aida Cardona-Alberich, Manon Tourbez, Sarah F Pearce, Christopher R Sibley

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Review in RNA biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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

17 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Modern Mining: The Role of Single-cell RNA Sequencing in Advancing Neuroscience Research.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2026
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  2. Decoding Alzheimer's Disease One Cell Class at a Time.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Aida Cardona-AlberichInstitute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK.
Manon TourbezSimons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Sarah F PearceSimons Initiative for the Developing Brain, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Christopher R SibleyInstitute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8286-4683
University of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) has emerged in recent years as a breakthrough technology to understand RNA metabolism at cellular resolution. In addition to allowing new cell types and states to be identified, scRNA-seq can permit cell-type specific differential gene expression changes, pre-mRNA processing events, gene regulatory networks and single-cell developmental trajectories to be uncovered. More recently, a new wave of multi-omic adaptations and complementary spatial transcriptomics workflows have been developed that facilitate the collection of even more holistic information from individual cells. These developments have unprecedented potential to provide penetrating new insights into the basic neural cell dynamics and molecular mechanisms relevant to the nervous system in both health and disease. In this review we discuss this maturation of single-cell RNA-sequencing over the past decade, and review the different adaptations of the technology that can now be applied both at different scales and for different purposes. We conclude by highlighting how these methods have already led to many exciting discoveries across neuroscience that have furthered our cellular understanding of the neurological disease.

Indexed as

AnimalsBrainComputational BiologyDNA Barcoding, TaxonomicGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression RegulationGene Regulatory NetworksHigh-Throughput Nucleotide SequencingHumansNerve Tissue ProteinsNeurodegenerative DiseasesNeurodevelopmental DisordersNeuronsRNA, MessengerSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisNerve Tissue ProteinsRNA, Messengerneurodegenerationneurodevelopmental disorderscRNA-seqSingle-cellsingle-nucleisnRNA-seq

Identifiers

PMID33499699
PMCPMC8216183
OpenAlexW3122577283

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