Heiko Lickert

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….

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

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

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Looking forward…

Requiem auf ein Fahrrad Über frostige Nächte und aufplatzende Knospen, über Abschiede und Schmetterlinge im Bauch, Ostseemuscheln und Eselsohren und warum Tauben Tauben heißen

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

YouTube video by Pete Peterson Andy Kaufman: "I Trusted You"

taking a dive into Andy Kaufman's career, and nothing prepared me for this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSYV...

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.

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…

Great complementary pig organoid model pioneered and established from the one and only @ckarampelias.bsky.social. Excellent work, check it out…

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...

Some thoughts on the new dynamic uncertain status and need for US-Canada Science diplomacy www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Excited to share our recent review on the insulin-IGF receptor signaling!

Fantastic work - congratulations Scott and team!

Final count down, just a few more days until registration closes…

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! 👇👍😉

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…

Application deadline is get closer - make sure you do not miss this exciting EMBO workshop on liver and pancreatic biology and disease 😉

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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.

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

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My favorite books, 2024

Looks like a fun group, can you add me, too 😀

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…

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

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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…

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

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Hi Esther, Can you add me, too? Thanks!

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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Congratulations Esra!

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...

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...

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"
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Beautiful, congratulations!