ISCRM Researchers Use Rainbow Reporters to Examine Proliferation of Engrafted Heart Cells
April 19, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Heart Regeneration, Research, Uncategorized |ISCRM investigators use rainbow cell technology to demonstrate that injected heart cells proliferate, a finding that could help researchers enhance the efficacy of cell therapy for heart disease and other conditions. Read More
Engineering Microvasculature in Full 3D Complexity
March 4, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |ISCRM researchers led by Ying Zheng, PhD, detail a method to generate microvaculature in full 3D complexity using multiphoton ablation and laser-guided cellularization Read More
NIH Funds Collaborative Effort to Pinpoint the Origins of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
February 18, 2021 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research |
ISCRM Researchers Pursue Personalized Medicine for Heart Failure
December 3, 2020 | Categories: Award, Research |With a Collaborative Science Award from the American Heart Association Jen Davis, Farid Moussavi-Harami , and Tom Daniel are on a mission to develop new tools to help cardiologists personalize treatments for certain heart diseases too. Read More
Stevens Lab Unveils Novel System for Regulating Gene Expression with Heat
September 30, 2020 | Categories: Research, Uncategorized |Researchers hoping to create disease models or regenerate organs need systems that precisely mimic the degree of complexity found in the natural world. The Stevens Lab is helping to answer the call with a new system that regulates gene expression patterns using heat Read More
Zheng Lab Uses New 3D Model to Study Effect of Curvature on Endothelial Cells
September 16, 2020 | Categories: Research |Every day, million of cars navigate a complex network of wide, straight highways, busy streets and avenues, and side roads that bend and curve in unpredictable patterns. Now a new 3D modeling tool will help scientists study even more complex traffic patterns at work in our blood vessels. Read More
Color-Coding Technology Reveals New Insights About Stem Cell Biology
July 29, 2020 | Categories: Research |Several years ago, Danny El-Nachef was given a mission to create a tool to observe and track how stem cells behaved during the earliest stages of human heart development. While the focus of the challenge was human biology, the x-factor in the solution came from the sea. Read More
Young Lab Links Loss of SORL1 Gene to Increased Alzheimer’s Risk
June 2, 2020 | Categories: Research |To overcome the inherent challenges in studying the brain, one ISCRM team used stem cell technology to implicate a gene known as SORL1 in some types of Alzheimer’s and to shed new light on why many promising treatments for this disease have hit dead ends in clinical trials. Read More