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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
Meet Jenny Robinson
January 23, 2023 | Categories: Core FacultyNew ISCRM faculty member Jenny Robinson, PhD has built a career researching how differences in sex hormones influence soft tissue regeneration, a question that first occurred to her on the soccer field. Read More
Research from Freedman Lab Reveals Surprising Finding About Common Cause of Kidney Disease
January 5, 2023 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |A paper from the Freedman Lab, published this week in Nature Communications, reveals a surprising finding about the way cysts form in PKD organoids, a discovery that could have clinical implications. Read More
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
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
ISCRM Researchers Identify Gene With Dual Influence on Bone and Muscle Development
November 29, 2022 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |Using zebrafish as a model, researchers from the Musculoskeletal Systems Biology Lab describe how wnt16 dually influences bone and muscle development and growth. Read More
WRF Fellowships for Two ISCRM Undergraduate Researchers
November 7, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Heart Regeneration |Undergraduate student researchers Dessirée Ortaç and Eesha Murali have received Washington Research Foundation Fellowships that will support their time in the lab through the end of the 2023 school year. Read More
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
Cascadia Corridor Research Symposium Comes to Seattle
October 10, 2022 | Categories: Announcements, Core Faculty, Research |The symposium will take place November 3-4 on the UW Medicine South Lake Union campus and will feature keynote addresses from ISCRM Associate Director Jen Davis, PhD and David Granville, PhD, Professor and Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia. Read More
NIH Grant Will Support Collaborative Hemophilia Study
October 7, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty |In a longitudinal study of mothers and babies, a research team led by ISCRM faculty member Jill Johnsen, MD will trace the roots of risk for immune complications caused by a treatment for severe Hemophilia A. Read More