by Elisa D'Arcangelo | Nov 25, 2021
This year, the Till & McCulloch Meetings (TMM) featured two particularly exciting Plenary Sessions for those of us with a passion for the nitty-gritty of stem cell biology: on November 15, a session entitled “Endogenous stem cells and their niches” featured talks...
by David Kent | May 14, 2020
The second post in this series on gene therapy and blood stem cells might give readers a small sense of the absolutely enormous research investment (time, money, people, etc.) required to find a way to expand blood stem cells for therapeutic purposes. Ever since the...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Jul 3, 2018
Blood stem cells may have evolved to inhabit bone tissue to avoid DNA damage from UV rays, a Harvard study suggests. Also known as haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), these cells are tasked with making blood — a medley of about a dozen cell types that move oxygen around...
by David Kent | Sep 22, 2015
. I was reading Nature the other day and came across a neat article from Yukikio Yamashita’s group at the University of Michigan entitled Nanotubes mediate niche–stem-cell signalling in the Drosophila testis. It may not sound interesting to our average reader, but the...
by Lisa Willemse | May 10, 2013
Pea Hen Feather. Credit: Bill Gracey The arrival of summer’s songbirds to much of Canada over the past month makes this a fitting time to talk about feathers. Coincidentally, a paper was released in Science in late April that revealed how stem cells function to...
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