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Key Upgrade to Protective Cell Delivery System Offers Greater Control with Light
August 27, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |The DeForest Research Group unveils a new tool, known as PhoCoil, that protects injected cells as they travel to their destination and gives scientists greater control over them once they arrive. Read More
More than 40 ISCRM Researchers Travel to Chehalis for Summer STEM Camp
August 14, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, OutreachOver the course of two science-packed days in a summer STEM camp, dozens of ISCRM trainees and faculty members led activities focused on organ physiology, DNA, biomaterials, the neuromuscular system, tissue regeneration, and much more. Read More
What Constitutes Appropriate Scientific Justification in Stem Cell Research?
June 12, 2025 | Categories: UncategorizedA multi-institutional team convened by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) elaborates on the meaning of “appropriate scientific justification” for review boards, regulators, and scientists who evaluate and conduct stem cell research. Read More
Meet the 2025 Tietze Award Winners
May 6, 2025 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |Smita Yadav and Nobuhiko (Nobu) Hamazaki have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs. Read More
User-Friendly 3D-Printed Device Will Allow Researchers to Model Human Tissue With Increased Control and Complexity
April 30, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |The device known as STOMP, developed by researchers from the Sniadecki and Theberge Labs, is small enough to fit on a human fingertip and is compatible with existing tissue engineering technology. Read More
How Cellular Dysfunction Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease Arises in Microglia
April 17, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty |New research from the lab of ISCRM faculty member Jessica Young sheds light on the relationship between loss of SORL1 and Alzheimer's disease risk specifically in microglia. Read More
New Platform for Tissue Engineers Reduces Guesswork in Bioink Formulation
April 11, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Uncategorized |The Stevens Lab has unveiled a game-changing system to simultaneously screen dozens of varying compositions of bioinks for tissue and organ printing Read More
Reh Lab Shows Conclusively that AAV-delivered Genes Can Regenerate Mammalian Retinal Neurons
March 24, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |Researchers in the Reh Lab have produced the clearest evidence yet that AAV-delivered genes can stimulate regeneration in the mammalian retina Read More
Freedman Lab Tests a Promising mTOR Inhibitor in PKD Organoids
January 23, 2025 | Categories: Research |The study results suggest the molecule at the center of the study may be safer at higher doses and therefore more potent against harmful cysts. Read More
Yang Lab Co-Leads NIH-Funded Effort to Improve Genetic Testing for HCM
November 4, 2024 | Categories: Research |An NIH-funded partnership between ISCRM faculty member Dr. Daniel Yang and Dr. Lea Starita in the UW Department of Genome Sciences will use an innovative gene editing technology to sequence large numbers of variants of a mutation associated with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Read More