Studying immune to non-immune cell cross-talk using single-cell technologies

Single-cell RNA-sequencing has uncovered immune heterogeneity, including novel cell types, states and lineages that have expanded our understanding of the immune system as a whole. More recently, studies involving both immune and non-immune cells have demonstrated the importance of immune microenvironment in development, homeostasis and disease. This review focuses on the single-cell studies mapping cell-cell interactions for variety of tissues in development, health and disease. In addition, we address the need to generate a comprehensive interaction map to answer fundamental questions in immunology as well as experimental and computational strategies required for this purpose.