A century-long journey from the discovery of insulin to the implantation of stem cell–derived islets

A Ramzy, PJ Belmonte, MJS Braam, S Ida… - Endocrine …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
For the past century, insulin injections have saved millions of lives, but glycemic instability is
still a persistent challenge for people with diabetes, leading to tremendous morbidity and …

Mapping single-cell data to reference atlases by transfer learning

M Lotfollahi, M Naghipourfar, MD Luecken… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Large single-cell atlases are now routinely generated to serve as references for analysis of
smaller-scale studies. Yet learning from reference data is complicated by batch effects …

β-Cell maturation and identity in health and disease

C Salinno, P Cota, A Bastidas-Ponce… - International journal of …, 2019 - mdpi.com
The exponential increase of patients with diabetes mellitus urges for novel therapeutic
strategies to reduce the socioeconomic burden of this disease. The loss or dysfunction of …

CellRank for directed single-cell fate mapping

M Lange, V Bergen, M Klein, M Setty, B Reuter… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Computational trajectory inference enables the reconstruction of cell state dynamics from
single-cell RNA sequencing experiments. However, trajectory inference requires that the …

Transformer for one stop interpretable cell type annotation

J Chen, H Xu, W Tao, Z Chen, Y Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Consistent annotation transfer from reference dataset to query dataset is fundamental to the
development and reproducibility of single-cell research. Compared with traditional …

Generalizing RNA velocity to transient cell states through dynamical modeling

V Bergen, M Lange, S Peidli, FA Wolf, FJ Theis - Nature biotechnology, 2020 - nature.com
RNA velocity has opened up new ways of studying cellular differentiation in single-cell RNA-
sequencing data. It describes the rate of gene expression change for an individual gene at a …

A relay velocity model infers cell-dependent RNA velocity

S Li, P Zhang, W Chen, L Ye, KW Brannan, NT Le… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
RNA velocity provides an approach for inferring cellular state transitions from single-cell
RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) data. Conventional RNA velocity models infer universal …

The glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP) regulates body weight and food intake via CNS-GIPR signaling

Q Zhang, CT Delessa, R Augustin, M Bakhti, G Colldén… - Cell metabolism, 2021 - cell.com
Uncertainty exists as to whether the glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide receptor
(GIPR) should be activated or inhibited for the treatment of obesity. Gipr was recently …

[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 …

Mapping cells through time and space with moscot

D Klein, G Palla, M Lange, M Klein, Z Piran, M Gander… - Nature, 2025 - nature.com
Single-cell genomic technologies enable the multimodal profiling of millions of cells across
temporal and spatial dimensions. However, experimental limitations hinder the …