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developmental and stem cell biologists
Posted by Eva Amsen, on 1 August 2011
(This interview originally appeared in Development.) Magdalena Götz is the Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Research at the Helmholtz Center and Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany. ...Posted by becca, on 28 July 2011
Stem cells have often been imaged live in culture, but very few stem cell systems are conducive to live imaging within their native tissues. An essential property of adult stem ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 14 July 2011
Sperm stem cells have a lot riding on their success. Not only must they produce the actual sperm, but they must maintain a life-long supply. So, the self-renewal of spermatogonial ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 11 July 2011
There’s an interesting interview in Nature News, with Abdelali Haoudi – the vice-president for research of the Qatar foundation. Qatar opened a biomedical research institute a few years ago, and ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 15 June 2011
I’m currently in Toronto for the annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), and you can expect to find updates about the meeting at various places. ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 13 June 2011
The Drosophila ovary is stunningly beautiful, and a playground of wonderful biological questions. Within the germarium alone, developmental biologists can look at asymmetric division, stem cells and their niches, cell ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 9 June 2011
After a heart attack, heart muscle is irreparably damaged, but a paper in Nature now reports that adult mouse hearts have a source of progenitor cells that can form new ...Posted by Erin M Campbell, on 12 April 2011
If there is hope to fully understand stem cells, then the environment surrounding those stem cells must be understood too. A recent Development paper describes important results on niche establishment ...Posted by Eva Amsen, on 7 April 2011
You’ve seen the news: ES cells generate a 3D retinal structure. But what does this tell us about eye development? In the developing embryo, the first step toward a functional ...Posted by Emma Kemp, on 11 March 2011
I expect many of you have already seen reports that the European Advocate General has taken a very restrictive view on patents for technologies that use human embyronic stem cells. ...