The community site for and by
developmental and stem cell biologists

Christele Gonneau

Posts by Christele Gonneau

Decoding reprogramming

Posted by , on 28 February 2014

When it comes to stem cell biology, there have been very few topics as fascinating and popular as cell reprogramming, the most famous reprogramming experiment being the one of Dolly ...

Cancer stem cells: quite beautiful, mainly scary...

Posted by , on 31 January 2014

Of all the types of stem cells, there is a kind than can be a lot more scary than beautiful: the cancer stem cell. Although the concept of cancer stem ...

Stem cells need beauty sleep too!

Posted by , on 20 December 2013

With the pre-festive season and the long winter darkness that accompanies it, it is appropriate to wonder how daylight/darkness cycles affect our biology. Regular daily variations such as daylight/darkness cycles ...

A young brain forever?

Posted by , on 25 November 2013

Memory impairment and age-related “brain decline” is a topic to which anyone relates to, a topic of great interest for both the scientific community and our aging population. So, imagine ...

How to spot a stem cell...

Posted by , on 23 October 2013

  Here’s a basic but really important question… how do stem cell scientists actually identify the stem cells they are raving about? We have all heard that we have stem ...