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The Hippo effector YAP in retinal stem cells

Posted by , on 7 October 2015

Xenopus represents a prime model for dissecting in vivo the signalling network that controls retinal stem cell behaviour. Its retina indeed retains a reservoir of active neural stem cells in ...

From the lab to the peak district

Posted by , on 31 August 2015

Thanks to the travelling fellowship, awarded by the Company of Biologists, I was fortunate enough to undertake a period of research in the laboratory of Prof. Marcelo N. Rivolta at ...

Talking about Science using Comics: A Stem Cell example

Posted by , on 28 August 2015

  “A Stem Cell Adventure” is a comic book about stem cell research, and resulted from a project on science outreach carried out by several researchers at the Center for ...

EuroStemCell Newsletter June 2015: Stockholm, stem cells and summer

Posted by , on 2 July 2015

This month’s newsletter has a focus on the recent annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, which was held in Stockholm at the end of June. If ...

An interview with Austin Smith

Posted by , on 2 July 2015

This interview was first published in Development.   Austin Smith is a stem cell and developmental biologist, who has dedicated his career to the study of pluripotency, stem cell renewal and ...

High school students blog about StemCellTalks

Posted by , on 27 June 2015

StemCellTalks is a Canadian high school outreach initiative that has been running in 7 Canadian cities since 2010. This symposium was established to facilitate knowledge transfer between academia and high ...

Development at the ISSCR

Posted by , on 23 June 2015

Tomorrow sees the start of the Annual ISSCR Meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. As one of the biggest conferences in the stem cell field – typically attracting around 4000 participants –  the ...

An interview with Rudolf Jaenisch

Posted by , on 16 June 2015

This interview was first published in Development.   Rudolf Jaenisch is a Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a founding member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and the current ...

An interview with Deepak Srivastava

Posted by , on 16 June 2015

This interview was first published in Development.   Deepak Srivastava is a Director at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and a Distinguished Professor in Paediatric Developmental Cardiology at the University of California, ...

The small beginnings of gastruloids

Posted by , 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 ...

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