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Heiko Lickert

@heikolickert.bsky.social
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Developmental, stem cell and islet biologist, Professor for Beta Cell Biology @ Technical University Munich, Director of Institute for Diabetes and Regeneration Research @HelmholtzMunich

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Tobias Greisle @tobiasgreisle.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Excited to see our review out in @cp-trendsendomet.bsky.social! Great team effort and lots of fun to dive into how #islets form and how we can use this knowledge for #diabetes therapy. @mireiamoli.bsky.social @ckarampelias.bsky.social @heikolickert.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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From architecture to function: mechanisms shaping pancreatic islet morphogenesis
Islets of Langerhans are highly structured mini-organs containing hormone-producing cells of the pancreas that regulate glucose metabolism. Studies of…
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Luiza Ghila @luizaghila.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
It is my great pleasure to co-chair together with Leen‘t Hart the iPSC and islet organoids session tomorrow at the 10th Meeting of the Study Group on Genetics of Diabetes #SGGD2026 introducing great speakers: Charlotte Ling, Amna Khamis, and Heiko Lickert, @heikolickert.bsky.social
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Christos Karampelias @ckarampelias.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Obviously special shoutout to our great Proteomics and Genomics core facilities at @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social and of course the boss @heikolickert.bsky.social for his continuous support! Grateful to the @humboldt-foundation.de for supporting this work with a postdoctoral fellowship.
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EMBO Molecular Medicine @embomolmed.org · 04/11/2025
New resource online! 🐖 Benchmarking porcine #PancreaticDuctalOrganoids for #DrugScreening applications by @ckarampelias.bsky.social, @heikolickert.bsky.social & colleagues @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social 🗞️ doi.org/10.1038/s443...
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Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetesforschung (DZD) @diabresearch-dzd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
🔬 Breakthrough in Diabetes Research: An international team led by @heikolickert.bsky.social has published the first single-cell atlas comparing pancreas development across humans, pigs, and mice — marking a milestone in translational medicine. @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social t1p.de/dqwer
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An Evolutionary Comparison of Pancreas Development: A Milestone in Translational Research and Diabetes Therapies
Neuherberg Pancreas development in pigs resembles humans much more closely than does the established mouse model. An international team headed by Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Re...
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Helmholtz Munich @helmholtzmunich.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Comparing Pancreas Development Across Species to Advance Diabetes Research New insights from international researchers led by #HelmholtzMunich & #DZD could reshape the future of #diabetes modeling & #RegenerativeMedicine. 👉 t1p.de/zg0ra @diabresearch-dzd.bsky.social @heikolickert.bsky.social
Comparing Pancreas Development Across Species to Advance Translational Research and Diabetes Therapies
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Christos Karampelias @ckarampelias.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Check out the latest manuscript from the @heikolickert.bsky.social lab on generating a defined stem-cell derived islet product for transplantation. A thorough characterization of the system particularly by our star PhD students Nike and Nicole! #PancSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Endocrine-enriched stem cell-derived islets improve long-term safety in vivo
Fully differentiated stem cell-derived islets (SC-islets) are proven to normalise blood glucose in type 1 diabetic patients. However, the presence of off-target cell types and the immature SC-islet fu...
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Tobias Greisle @tobiasgreisle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Happy to share a new tool from the @heikolickert.bsky.social lab! We generated human iPSC fluorescent reporter lines to monitor Wnt/PCP signaling activity by Flattop in stem cell derived β-cells. doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... Thanks to all the co-authors that helped in the present and the past!
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Redirecting
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Christos Karampelias @ckarampelias.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New from the @heikolickert.bsky.social clan and great work from Carina together with all collaborators and the Theis lab to study pancreas development across species, bringing new insights into conserved pathways using multimodal computational analysis www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PancSky
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A multimodal cross-species comparison of pancreas development - Nature Communications
This study establishes the pig as a complementary model for studying human pancreas development. It shows pigs mimic human developmental tempo, gene regulation, and endocrine cell emergence, offering ...
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Congratulations Nike, Nicole, Kathy and the whole team to get this important study into the pipeline. If you womder if stem cell-derived islet compositions matters for safety and efficacy for the graft, our tissue engineering approach gives an answer. Check it out….
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates ratcheted up his feud with Elon Musk, accusing the world’s richest man of “killing the world’s poorest children” through what he said were misguided cuts to US development assistance www.ft.com/content/bdd9...
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Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of ‘killing’ children with USAID cuts
Billionaire reopens feud with Tesla chief as he unveils plan to spend $200bn on philanthropy and close foundation in 2045
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Looking forward…
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Renatus Deckert @renatusdeckert.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Zum Frühlingsanfang eine kleine Frühlingsgeschichte: Über frostige Nächte und aufplatzende Knospen, über Abschiede und Schmetterlinge im Bauch, Ostseemuscheln und Eselsohren und warum Tauben Tauben heißen
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Requiem auf ein Fahrrad
Über frostige Nächte und aufplatzende Knospen, über Abschiede und Schmetterlinge im Bauch, Ostseemuscheln und Eselsohren und warum Tauben Tauben heißen
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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
taking a dive into Andy Kaufman's career, and nothing prepared me for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYV...
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Andy Kaufman: "I Trusted You"
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Mark Lewandoski PhD @marklewandoski.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
My prior home towns, like Manhattan and San Francisco, never had the burst of flowering trees every Spring, like the DC area. It’s dazzling each time.
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This clearly will get worse with our dependency on computers, mobile phones, social media, AI, and even worse, we will be manipulated without having a chance - so for me it is clear, this trend will continue and we will lose our natural Intelligence…
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Great complementary pig organoid model pioneered and established from the one and only @ckarampelias.bsky.social. Excellent work, check it out…
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Daniel Drucker @danieljdrucker.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Some thoughts on the new dynamic uncertain status and need for US-Canada Science diplomacy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Uphold US-Canada science
A partnership can be demanding, and as with any couple, can have good days and bad. The United States–Canada relationship is most definitely having a bad one. It’s difficult to fully comprehend all th...
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Eunhee Choi @eunheechoilab.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Excited to share our recent review on the insulin-IGF receptor signaling!
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Fantastic work - congratulations Scott and team!
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Final count down, just a few more days until registration closes…
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Exciting new tool to make the most out of multimodal single-cell data from our friends and long-term collaborators of the @fabian_theis lab - check it out, it works beautifully and really makes sense out of your complex data! 👇👍😉
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Application deadline is get closer - make sure you do not miss this exciting EMBO workshop on liver and pancreatic biology and disease 😉 meetings.embo.org/event/25-liv...
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Liver and pancreas in metabolic disease: from pathways to therapies
The liver and pancreas arise from a common developmental origin and are controlled by shared gene regulatory programs.These organs are central to two of the most common and devastating metabolic dise…
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Emma R Andersson @anderssonlab.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Want to delve deep into liver and pancreas biology in a beautiful setting? Join us April 1–4 at the EMBO Workshop in the beautiful coastal town of Sant Feliu de Guíxols (Girona), Spain! Organized w/ Ines Cebola, @jorge-ferrer.bsky.social @heikolickert.bsky.social & Ludovic Vallier. bit.ly/4g8zajj
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Benoit Bruneau @benoitbruneau.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
our newest preprint! Led by Zoe Grant in my lab and Shuzen Kuang in Katie Pollard's lab here at Gladstone. "Dose-dependent sensitivity of human 3D chromatin to a heart disease-linked transcription factor" 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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studerl.bsky.social @studerl.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Exciting news from BlueRock Therapeutics & Bayer on upcoming phase III trial for our DA neuron cell therapy in Parkinson’s disease. www.bluerocktx.com/bluerock-the...
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BlueRock Therapeutics advances investigational cell therapy bemdaneprocel for treating Parkinson’s disease to registrational Phase III clinical trial - BlueRock Therapeutics LP
BlueRock will initiate a Phase III clinical trial for bemdaneprocel, its investigational cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease. It is expected to begin in the first half of 2025 and will represent a si...
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Christos Karampelias @ckarampelias.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Nice findings on Beta cell dysfunction studied in human pancreatic slices during type 1 diabetes progression, interesting findings on calcium dynamics #BetaSky @eaphelps.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Beta cell dysfunction occurs independently of insulitis in type 1 diabetes pathogenesis
During type 1 diabetes (T1D) progression, beta cells become dysfunctional and exhibit reduced first-phase insulin release. While this period of beta cell dysfunction is well established, its cause and...
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29/12/2024
I'm at a point where I'm honestly vaguely surprised that anyone who isn't an admitted fascist (or at least fascist-comfortable) and/or a corporate account is still actively on the former Twitter. The best time to have left is long gone, but the second-best time is now. www.pcmag.com/opinions/my-...
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My #1 New Year's Resolution: Dump Twitter, Embrace Bluesky
I'm quitting Twitter in 2025, and you should, too. Join me in jumping over to the platform that brings fun back to social media.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
My favorite books, 2024
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Jorge Ferrer @jorge-ferrer.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Join us in a beautiful location for this multidisciplinary experience. Top speakers linking topics such as organoid modeling, synthetic biology, gene regulation or genetics with disease mechanisms & new therapies for T1D, T2D, and MASLD meetings.embo.org/event/25-liver-pancreas
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Liver and pancreas in metabolic disease: from pathways to therapies
The liver and pancreas arise from a common developmental origin and are controlled by shared gene regulatory programs.These organs are central to two of the most common and devastating metabolic dise…
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
My top highlight for 2025 - EMBO workshop in Saint Feliu - three exciting days of science crossing boundaries of liver & pancreas research! Co-organised by @CebolaLab @1jorgeferrer @VallierLab @LickertHeiko & Emma Anderson #livertwitter #islets #masld #diabetes meetings.embo.org/event/25-liv...
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Liver and pancreas in metabolic disease: from pathways to therapies
The liver and pancreas arise from a common developmental origin and are controlled by shared gene regulatory programs.These organs are central to two of the most common and devastating metabolic dise…
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Ondine Cleaver @ondinecleaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Essential reading for all that serve as reviewers. Please help your authors as if they were in your lab. Make your reviews constructive. Overly onerous reviews amount to blocking each others’ work. It slows progress and demoralizes junior investigators. Let’s elevate, not crush, #DevBio
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ekarakose.bsky.social @ekarakose.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Excited and thrilled to share our recent work that reports a possible alpha-to-beta transdifferentiation event taking place in human islets with harmine treatment. www.cell.com/cell-reports...
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Cycling alpha cells in regenerative drug-treated human pancreatic islets may serve as key beta cell progenitors
Diabetes results from an absolute or functional reduction in human pancreatic beta cells. Small-molecule DYRK1A inhibitors exemplified by harmine induce human beta cell proliferation and enhance human...
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John Rubinstein @johnrubinstein.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
Years after the idea and preliminary experiments, Claire Coupland's amazing structure of the endogenous vacuolar- or vesicular-ATPase in its NATIVE vesicle is now in bioRxiv "High resolution cryo-EM of V-ATPase in native synaptic vesicles" www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Jens Puschhof @jenspuschhof.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
#Organoid research starter pack. I didn't find many researchers from the field yet, please comment/text me to be added! go.bsky.app/RmXgs6d
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Diego del Alamo @delalamo.xyz · 03/01/2024
CASP16 will start later this year, so to celebrate that here is a short thread on the uncanny valley separating experimental structures & computational models of proteins. Even though the latter are extremely accurate, there are still some weird differences that are hard to pin down.  🧪🧶🧬🧵
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Thanks Anup! Indeed, everybody searched for a TGN receptor to sort proinsulin into secretory granules, since Orci’s Banting lecture in 1981, none found! There is a river of proinsulin flowing into the TGN, mechanisms must exist to prevent unprocessed insulin to be secreted 😉 new avenues to explore 😀
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thrilled to share one of our biggest discoveries: “Inceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in beta cells”. doi.org/10.1038/s422... A tremendous collaborative effort led by JohannaSiehler, Sara Bilekova and other members of the Lickert lab @heikolickert.bsky.social
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Inceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in β cells - Nature Metabolism
The insulin inhibitory receptor (inceptor) is found to bind to insulin and to regulate insulin stores by directing proinsulin and insulin towards lysosomal degradation.
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Pascal Albanese @pascalalbanese.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Great post to kickstart on Bsky! Inceptor was a tough one for #Massspec. Together with Sem Tamara we showed, among others, that #inceptor ectodomain binds #insulin and pro-insulin at low pH. Maybe #XL-MS will tell us where? 🙃 Thanks @heikolickert.bsky.social for involving us on this milestone :)
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Heiko Lickert @heikolickert.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Thrilled to share one of our biggest discoveries: “Inceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in beta cells”. doi.org/10.1038/s422... A tremendous collaborative effort led by JohannaSiehler, Sara Bilekova and other members of the Lickert lab @heikolickert.bsky.social
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Inceptor binds to and directs insulin towards lysosomal degradation in β cells - Nature Metabolism
The insulin inhibitory receptor (inceptor) is found to bind to insulin and to regulate insulin stores by directing proinsulin and insulin towards lysosomal degradation.
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Jalees Rehman @jalees.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
mTORC1 activity licenses its own release from the lysosomal surface www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
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mTORC1 activity licenses its own release from the lysosomal surface
The activation of mTORC1 is intricately linked to its subcellular localization, with the Rag GTPases controlling its lysosomal recruitment in response to nutrient cues. Acharya and Demetriades uncover...
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Sara Wickstrom @sarawickstrom.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Check out our latest preprint where we show that the mechanosensitive channel Piezo1 balances membrane and cortex tension for timely assembly and stability of intercellular junctions 🤩 Congratulations Ahsan and team 🎉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 18/11/2024
We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics
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Action Intent Links | Bluesky
Authors, websites, and apps can use action intent links to implement "Share on Bluesky" buttons, or similar in-app actions. Logged-in users will be directed to the corresponding action view in the Blu...
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Captain Natalie @handle.invalid · 23/11/2024
All the academics have suddenly migrated to Bluesky. In the two weeks since the US presidential election, the platform has grown from close to 14 million users to nearly 21 million. #stem #tech #womeninstem #womenintech
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‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky
Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.
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Will Allen @weallen1.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
In collaboration with Reuben Saunders, @jswlab.bsky.social, and Xiaowei Zhuang, we are very excited to release Perturb-Multi: a platform for pooled multimodal genetic screens in intact mammalian tissue. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A platform for multimodal in vivo pooled genetic screens reveals regulators of liver function
Organ function requires coordinated activities of thousands of genes in distinct, spatially organized cell types. Understanding the basis of emergent tissue function requires approaches to dissect the...
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Markus Landthaler @landthalerm.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Last #RNAbiology work for the day. This one by the Mendell lab: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Specific tRNAs promote mRNA decay by recruiting the CCR4-NOT complex to translating ribosomes
The CCR4-NOT complex is a major regulator of eukaryotic messenger RNA (mRNA) stability. Slow decoding during translation promotes association of CCR4-NOT with ribosomes, accelerating mRNA degradation....
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Ali Maximilian Erturk @erturklab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Hey Bluesky! As Erturklab, we are also moving to alternative social media 😉. Stay in touch to follow our work on AI and tissue clearing driven cell-level imaging of intact mouse bodies and human organs, and how we use these methods to study diseases and develop therapeutics at the cellular level.
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Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Latest paper in Nature this week: an atlas integrating 36 single-cell datasets spanning 26 protocols for making neural #organoids Effort led by B. Treutlein, @fabiantheis.bsky.social and @graycamplab.bsky.social
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Sergiu P. Pasca @sergiuppasca.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
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An integrated transcriptomic cell atlas of human neural organoids - Nature
A human neural organoid cell atlas integrating 36 single-cell transcriptomic datasets shows cell types and states and estimates transcriptomic similarity between primary and organoid counterparts, sho...
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Eszter Posfai @eposfai.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Check out our new paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social by amazing grad students @ezlevy.bsky.social and @isabellaleite.bsky.social “A tug-of-war between germ cell motility and intercellular bridges controls germline cyst formation in mice” authors.elsevier.com/a/1k7fg3QW8S...
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