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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 1 April 2015
Mouse embryonic stem cells (mESCs) are by definition cells that can self-renew (make identical copies of themselves) and specialize into any cell type of the body. Since their discovery, scientists ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 22 January 2015
Growing organs in vitro is one of the ultimate dreams of any stem cell biologist. As such, it seems obvious that some of these organs will need to ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 7 December 2014
Thanks to microscopy, scientists can compete with the most talented photographers and take the most astonishing pictures! Although I have been focusing on microscopy pictures in this blog, microscopy is ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 26 October 2014
Starting with the one fertilized egg that we all once were, embryonic development is made of cell divisions and most importantly of cell decisions. These first life decisions are the ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 4 September 2014
As for the origin of species, the question of the origin of blood during development has unleashed a lot of passion among the scientific community. As a matter of fact, ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 4 August 2014
Science teachers usually say that science progresses by challenging old dogmas. In the stem cell field, there is a dogma saying that some blood stem cells in the bone marrow ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 27 May 2014
Decisions, decisions…aren’t those one of our main worries? It is certainly the everyday worry of a stem cell! Understanding stem cell decisions is a central question in the field: how ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, on 3 May 2014
How great would it be if we knew how to reverse ageing and turn old organs into young ones? Actually, this might not be as crazy as it sounds. As ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, 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 ...Posted by Christele Gonneau, 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 ...