Single-cell tracking of lineage and identity with CellTag
Type
Blog Post
Published
May 9, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
...scRNA-seq), now allows scientists to identify the gene expression patterns unique to the few cells that...reprogram. Unfortunately scRNA-seq only captures the gene expression of cells at a single time point, making...at the single-cell level, thus linking ancestral gene expression patterns with reprogramming outcomes ...constructing lineage trees and comparing them with the gene expression changes of more than 100,000 cells undergoing...partially reprogrammed and re-expressed fibroblast genes. Most cells ended up taking the ‘dead-end’ path....cells with shared CellTagD13 tags often had similar gene expression pattern changes and reprogramming outcomes...tracing experiment, the Morris lab identified a novel gene, Mettl7a1, whose expression helped coax cells towards...