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Exploring Regenerative Potential in Zebrafish and Humans

September 27, 2022 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , ,

A study from the Musculoskeletal Systems Biology Lab sheds a light on the characteristics of zebrafish cells that are able to differentiate from progenitor cells into bone cells, and then revert back to a progenitor state. Read More

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Modeling a Muscle Disease in 3D

August 17, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

A team of investigators led by ISCRM faculty members David Mack, PhD and Nate Sniadecki, PhD have shown that is possible to recreate DMD with much more complexity in a 3D model of engineered heart tissue. Read More

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Meet the 2022-2023 ISCRM Fellows

August 1, 2022 | Categories: Award, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

State-funded ISCRM Fellowships enable students at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral level to advance research efforts aimed at addressing the root causes of diseases. Read More

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Grant for Escobar Lab Funds AML Research

July 13, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , , , ,

Thelma Escobar, PhD is collaborating with the Doulatov Lab and the Stem Cell Core to study how mutations in the gene NPM1 drive AML onset. Read More

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Boyle Lab Leads Effort to Improve Stroke Risk Assessment

July 5, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: ,

ISCRM faculty member Patrick Boyle has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to improve outcomes for stroke patients by identifying and testing individualized strategies for diagnosing and treating strokes. Read More

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Freedman Lab Explores the Role Cilia Play in Signaling, Cell Fate, and Disease Development

April 27, 2022 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , , , , , ,

In the Freedman Lab, knocking out primary cilia reveals insights about the role the organelles play in cell fate and disease development. Read More

Two groups of stained neutrophil cells: the left group shows normal-shaped nuclei, while the right group shows nuclei with abnormal shapes, indicating lamin B1 deletion (Pelger-Huët anomaly).

Deletion of Lamin B1 Linked to Nuclear Abnormalities Seen in Cancer

March 11, 2022 | Categories: Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

Using gene-editing tools to decrease expression of lamin B1 in two stem cell models, the researchers show that deletion of lamin B1 causes change in stem cell function and nuclear shape – and contributes to leukemia progression. Read More

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Regulating Cells With Designed Proteins

March 1, 2022 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , , ,

ISCRM researchers have developed a tool to selectively control the PRC2 complex – an epigenetic regulator that influences cell fate across multiple stages of development. That tool is a computer-designed protein binder engineered in partnership with the Institute for Protein Design (IPD). Read More

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Davis Lab Examines a Protein With a Key Role in Scarring

February 16, 2022 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , ,

In a study that came with some unexpected findings, ISCRM researchers reveal new details about the role an RNA binding protein (MBNL1) plays in the steps that lead to scarring in the heart. Read More

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Kelly Stevens receives $1.3M Allen Distinguished Investigator Award to study how liver develops

February 9, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , ,

Kelly Stevens has received an Allen Distinguished Investigator Award to support her work to map and understand how human livers develop. Read More