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ArticleCell reports methods2025

Comparison of single-cell RNA-seq methods to enable transcriptome profiling of neutrophils in clinical samples.

Klas Hatje, Kim Schneider, Sabrina Danilin, Fabian Koechl, Nicolas Giroud, Laurent Juglair, Daniel Marbach, Philip Knuckles, Tobias Bergauer, Matteo Metruccio and 4 more

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Article in Cell reports methods, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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14 authors.

Klas HatjeRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Kim SchneiderRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Sabrina DanilinRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Fabian KoechlRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Nicolas GiroudRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Laurent JuglairRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Daniel MarbachRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Philip KnucklesRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Tobias BergauerRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Matteo MetruccioRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Alba GarridoRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Jitao David ZhangRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Marc SultanRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland.
Emma BellRoche Pharma Research and Early Development, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Roche Innovation Center Basel, F. Hoffmann-La Roche, Ltd., Grenzacherstrasse 124, 4070 Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: emma.bell@roche.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Monitoring neutrophil gene expression is a powerful tool for understanding disease mechanisms, developing diagnostics, enhancing therapies, and optimizing clinical trials. Neutrophils are sensitive to the processing, storage, and transportation steps that are involved in clinical sample analysis. This study evaluates the capabilities of technologies from 10× Genomics, PARSE Biosciences, and HIVE (Honeycomb Biotechnologies) to generate single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data from human blood-derived neutrophils. Our comparative analysis shows that all methods produced high-quality data, importantly capturing the transcriptomes of neutrophils. Here, we establish a reliable scRNA-seq workflow for neutrophils in clinical trials: we offer guidelines on sample collection to preserve RNA quality and demonstrate how each method performs in capturing sensitive cell populations in clinical practice.

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Gene Expression ProfilingNeutrophilsRNA-SeqSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisTranscriptomeHumansSingle-Cell Gene Expression AnalysisbiomarkerCP: immunologygene expressionneutrophilsperipheral blood mononuclear cellssingle cell RNA-seqtranscriptome

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PMID40957400
PMCPMC12539239

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