Welcome Min (Mia) Yang and Nobuhiko (Nobu) Hamazaki
August 8, 2023 | Categories: UncategorizedISCRM is thrilled to welcome two new faculty members, Min (Mia) Yang, Assistant Professor, OBGYN and Nobuhiko (Nobu) Hamazaki, PhD, Assistant Professor, OBGYN and Genome Sciences. Read More about Welcome Min (Mia) Yang and Nobuhiko (Nobu) Hamazaki
Meet the 2023 Tietze Award Winners
June 1, 2023 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |Julie Mathieu, PhD and Niclas Bengtsson, PhD have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs. Read More about Meet the 2023 Tietze Award Winners
Breaking Boundaries in Skin Research With Biosensors and Optogenetics
April 14, 2023 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |Cory Simpson, MD, PhD and Andre Berndt, PhD detail how advances in biosensor and optogenetic technology are opening up new possibilities in dermatology research. Read More about Breaking Boundaries in Skin Research With Biosensors and Optogenetics
Gene-Edits Safely Reduce Irregular Heartbeats in Cell Therapy for Heart Disease
April 6, 2023 | Categories: Core Faculty, Heart Regeneration, Research, Uncategorized |Researchers in the Murry Lab have demonstrated that a quadruple gene editing approach safely suppresses irregular heartbeats in stem cell therapy for injured hearts. Read More about Gene-Edits Safely Reduce Irregular Heartbeats in Cell Therapy for Heart Disease
NIH Grant Advances Alzheimer’s Research – And Launches a Career
March 28, 2023 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Uncategorized |Tiara Schwarze-Taufiq, an ISCRM undergraduate fellow in 2021, is now a Research Scientist in the Young Lab thanks to an NIH R21 grant made possible in part by her own research. Read More about NIH Grant Advances Alzheimer’s Research – And Launches a Career
ISCRM Researchers Recover Cells from Hydrogels with Minimal Disturbance
March 1, 2023 | Categories: UncategorizedResearch from the DeForest and Davis Labs describes a new method for cell extraction using engineered versions of an enzyme called sortase that have evolved to recognize and break specific peptide sequences. Read More about ISCRM Researchers Recover Cells from Hydrogels with Minimal Disturbance
Science Nights at the Collective
February 21, 2023 | Categories: UncategorizedJoin ISCRM at the Collective in South Lake Union on the evening of May 4 for Cells in Jello: The Wonder of Biomaterials, a free public science talk. Read More about Science Nights at the Collective
Ganglion cells created in mice in bid to fix diseased eyes
December 13, 2022 | Categories: UncategorizedA UW Medicine team led by Tom Reh, PhD had previously shown that neurons could be coaxed from glial cells in the retinal tissue of mice. Now they’ve refined the process to produce specific cells. Read More about Ganglion cells created in mice in bid to fix diseased eyes
Another Job for Mighty Mitochondria: Regulating Stem Cell Division
December 8, 2022 | Categories: UncategorizedResearch from the Ruohola-Baker Lab shows that mitochondria determine whether a stem cell can reproduce or not, a finding that sheds new light on the factors that influence cell cycles. Read More about Another Job for Mighty Mitochondria: Regulating Stem Cell Division
Special Issue in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology Edited by David Mack, Mark Bothwell, and Alec Smith
October 14, 2022 | Categories: UncategorizedDavid Mack, Mark Bothwell, and Alec Smith are the editors of a special issue of Frontiers in Cell & Developmental Biology that explores different models for investigating neuromuscular disease and weighing the pros and cons of stem cell-based models versus cell lines and animal models. Read More about Special Issue in Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology Edited by David Mack, Mark Bothwell, and Alec Smith