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Alejo Torres-Cano

King's College LondonORCID 0000-0003-4857-3177Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cell type annotation· 2 Research Focus:clustering· 2 Organism:mouse· 2 Assay:scRNA-seq· 2 Assay:spatial transcriptomics· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1

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Francesca M. SpagnoliiD· 3 shared Alessandra VigilanteiD· 2 shared Georgina GossiD· 2 shared Anna SalowkaiD· 1 shared Catharina OlseniD· 1 shared David WillnowiD· 1 shared Debashish Chitnis· 1 shared Flavia FlavianiiD· 1 shared

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2025-2026 · peak 2/yr

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Developmental BiologybioRxivPreprintOct 12, 2026

Mesodermal-niche interactions direct specification and differentiation of pancreatic endocrine cells in human multilineage organoids

Georgina Goss, Alejo Torres-Cano, Raquel A. Martínez García de la Torre…·Francesca M. Spagnoli

The paper demonstrates that mesoderm-derived cells in organoids promote endocrine commitment and β-cell differentiation in human pancreatic development.

DOI 10.64898/2025.12.13.694117

humanspatial transcriptomics

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Developmental BiologyCellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and HepatologyPeer-reviewedDec 25, 2025

ΔNP63 defines an exocrine-committed multipotent progenitor subset in the murine pancreas

Katarina Coolens, Melissa Van der Vliet, Jente Van Campenhout…·Ilse Rooman

This study identifies ΔNP63 as a marker for exocrine-committed multipotent progenitors in the murine pancreas, showing its role in exocrine development and differentiation.

2 citations

mousescRNA-seq

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Developmental BiologyScience AdvancesPeer-reviewedNov 12, 2025

Spatially organized cellular communities shape functional tissue architecture in the pancreas

Alejo Torres-Cano, Jean-François Darrigrand, Gabriel Emilio Herrera-Oropeza…·Francesca M. Spagnoli

This study maps pancreatic cell populations across space and time in mice, revealing spatially organized niches and their functional roles in development and adult homeostasis.

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mousescRNA-seq

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