Concepts and limitations for learning developmental trajectories from single cell genomics

S Tritschler, M Büttner, DS Fischer, M Lange… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Single cell genomics has become a popular approach to uncover the cellular heterogeneity
of progenitor and terminally differentiated cell types with great precision. This approach can …

EMT and stemness—Key players in pancreatic cancer stem cells

E Rodriguez-Aznar, L Wiesmüller, B Sainz Jr… - Cancers, 2019 - mdpi.com
Metastasis and tumor progression are the major cause of death in patients suffering from
pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Tumor growth and especially dissemination are typically …

Charting cellular identity during human in vitro β-cell differentiation

A Veres, AL Faust, HL Bushnell, EN Engquist… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
In vitro differentiation of human stem cells can produce pancreatic β-cells; the loss of this
insulin-secreting cell type underlies type 1 diabetes. Here, as a step towards understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Deciphering early human pancreas development at the single-cell level

Z Ma, X Zhang, W Zhong, H Yi, X Chen, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding pancreas development can provide clues for better treatments of pancreatic
diseases. However, the molecular heterogeneity and developmental trajectory of the early …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptome profiling reveals β cell maturation in stem cell-derived islets after transplantation

P Augsornworawat, KG Maxwell, L Velazco-Cruz… - Cell reports, 2020 - cell.com
Human pluripotent stem cells differentiated to insulin-secreting β cells (SC-β cells) in islet
organoids could provide an unlimited cell source for diabetes cell replacement therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Long-term expansion of pancreatic islet organoids from resident Procr+ progenitors

D Wang, J Wang, L Bai, H Pan, H Feng, H Clevers… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
It has generally proven challenging to produce functional β cells in vitro. Here, we describe a
previously unidentified protein C receptor positive (Procr+) cell population in adult mouse …

Comprehensive single cell mRNA profiling reveals a detailed roadmap for pancreatic endocrinogenesis

A Bastidas-Ponce, S Tritschler, L Dony… - …, 2019 - journals.biologists.com
Deciphering mechanisms of endocrine cell induction, specification and lineage allocation in
vivo will provide valuable insights into how the islets of Langerhans are generated …

[HTML][HTML] Single-cell transcriptome profiling of mouse and hESC-derived pancreatic progenitors

NAJ Krentz, MYY Lee, EE Xu, SLJ Sproul, A Maslova… - Stem cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) are a potential unlimited source of insulin-producing
β cells for diabetes treatment. A greater understanding of how β cells form during embryonic …

Navigating the depths and avoiding the shallows of pancreatic islet cell transcriptomes

AM Mawla, MO Huising - Diabetes, 2019 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Islet gene expression has been widely studied to better understand the transcriptional
features that define a healthy β-cell. Transcriptomes of FACS-purified α-, β-, and δ-cells …

Mapping cells through time and space with moscot

D Klein, G Palla, M Lange, M Klein, Z Piran, M Gander… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Single-cell genomics technologies enable multimodal profiling of millions of cells across
temporal and spatial dimensions. Experimental limitations prevent the measurement of all …