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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 Â
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
How Small Molecules Have a Big Impact on the Heart
October 23, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |Researchers at UW and UCSD use a multiscale modeling tool show how small infusions of myosin can have a big impact on the whole heart. Read More
Modeling the Periodontal Ligament in 3D
October 22, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |A new 3D modeling tool developed by the Sniadecki Lab and Dr. Tracy Popwics in the School of Dentistry could lead to regenerative therapies for periodontal diseases. Read More
David Baker Receives Nobel Prize
October 9, 2024 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty |ISRCRM faculty member David Baker has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design. Read More
New Gene Therapy for Muscular Dystrophy Offers Hope
July 17, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |A new gene therapy treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) shows promise of not only arresting the decline of the muscles of those affected by this inherited genetic disease, but perhaps, in the future, repairing those muscles. Read More