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Human brain development on a vacation island

Posted by , on 5 March 2025

The island of Capri, lying south of Naples and West of Sorrento, is an Italian vacation destination known for its exquisite views and extravagant luxury shopping. So, it may come ...

ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting: Where Scientific Discoveries, Biotech Innovations, and Clinical Breakthroughs Converge

Posted by , on 2 March 2025

The ISSCR Annual Meeting, taking place in Hong Kong on 11-14 June, is a gathering of the brightest minds in stem cell research and regenerative medicine across geographies and disciplines. ...

Behind the paper: "Recording morphogen signals reveals origins of gastruloid symmetry breaking"

Posted by , on 17 January 2025

Stem cell models as laboratories to study self-organization My road from physics to developmental biology began in a journal club during my PhD in Adam Cohen’s lab at Harvard. We ...

Winding road to the cambial stem cells

Posted by , on 13 January 2025

In plants, the vascular cambium, a bifacial stem cell niche, drives wood formation by generating the xylem on one side and the phloem on the other. In this post, Ari ...

Minipigs get stem cell transplants to treat blindness

Posted by , on 20 December 2024

PRESS RELEASE: Millions of people around the world are affected by retinal degenerative diseases. In most cases, loss of vision is caused by damage to the macula, a region in ...

Don’t eat me!!

Posted by , on 15 November 2024

When I joined the Zon lab in June 2021, my mentor, Leonard Zon, shared an insightful piece of advice: “A good project always has two questions, one you can answer ...

Understanding signalling pathways involved in the development of definitive endoderm.

Posted by , on 4 November 2024

During my time as a summer student at the Francis Crick Institute, I had the privilege of working in the Developmental Signalling Laboratory of Dr Caroline Hill. Under the mentorship ...

New genome reveals ancient toolkit

Posted by , on 23 July 2024

Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus is an emerging model to understand stem cell evolution Stem cells can’t hide what they are. At least, that’s the takeaway from the newly sequenced genomes of two ...

Ready, steady, cooooooonga~

Posted by , on 8 July 2024

What is this? The video depicts the formation of the so-called lateral line in a transgenic zebrafish that I took when I was a student in Tatjana Piotrowski’s lab at ...

Royal Society Meeting on Cell Lineages

Posted by , on 9 April 2024

Birmingham, UK, May 7-8, 2024 Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre Do you study Development? Complex cellular systems? Cancer? Then we’d love to have you at our Meeting “Cell Lineages ...

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