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Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 10 January 2012
Our intestinal tissue doesn’t need a New Year’s resolution to keep up its amazing productivity. Our intestinal epithelium is replenished at breakneck speed in an assembly line that begins with ...Posted by stemcellsjobs, on 5 January 2012
Studentships starting October 2012 Application deadline 13 January 2012 Interviews to be held 30-31 January 2012 Stem Cell Biology Stem cells are defined by the dual capacity to self-renew and ...Posted by Hillel Kugler, on 23 December 2011
Many tissues and organs contain self-renewing stem cell populations that are crucial for their maintenance. Synthesizing the relative effects of anatomical constraints, cell proliferation dynamics and cell fate specification on ...Posted by Development Book Reviews, on 22 December 2011
This book review originally appeared in Development. Neil Singh and Ludovic Vallier review “Human Stem Cell Technology and Biology” (Edited by Gary S. Stein, Maria Borowski, Mai X. Luong, Meng-Jiao ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 7 December 2011
Satellite cells are muscle stem cells that regenerate injured muscle (remember this earlier post?). They are highly motile cells that may be able to travel in order to repair injured ...Posted by Paul O'Neill, on 13 November 2011
A new Nature study has again demonstrated the power of ES cells as a model system for recapitulating developmental processes in vitro. Following on from the amazing self-assembly of differentiated ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 10 November 2011
Next time you curse your hair for your bad hair day, consider thanking it instead. The hair follicle has populations of stem cells that aid in skin regeneration after injury, ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 19 October 2011
(This interview originally appeared in Development.) Gordon Keller is Director of the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. His research applies concepts from developmental ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 8 September 2011
Researchers have long known about regeneration of injured muscles, and have debated about the exact source of the muscle stem cells that perform this amazing feat. A group of papers ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 12 August 2011
At the ISSCR meeting in Toronto in June I noticed this display at the top of the escalators: These fabrics with patterns related to stem cells are part of an ...