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Fast-tracking genetic leads to reverse cellular aging

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Biologists use Co-Scientist to find novel factors that successfully rejuvenate human cells.

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arXiv Statistics ML
Sep 16

Causal Path Analysis from Perturbational and Population-Scale Single-Cell Data with Multiscale Confounding and Measurement Error

The paper presents a framework that merges single‑cell perturbation experiments with population‑scale single‑cell data to perform causal path analysis of gene regulation. It incorporates externally learned ancestral relationships to constrain network topology, re‑estimates direct edges from population data, and applies a surrogate‑variable procedure plus errors‑in‑variables correction to handle multiscale heterogeneity and measurement error. The authors provide theoretical guarantees for confounder recovery and high‑dimensional estimation, and demonstrate the method’s effectiveness through simulations and an acute myeloid leukemia case study that uncovers distinct regulatory pathways linking transcriptional regulators to blast count.

By Kwangmoon Park, Hongzhe Li