The cover of iScience magazine features a microscopic image of cells in vibrant colors—green, red, blue, and purple—forming circular and clustered patterns. Yellow text displays the magazines title and publication details.

Improved Method for Converting Stem Cells into Pancreatic Islet Progenitor Cells Detailed in iScience

August 29, 2019 | Categories: Announcements, Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , , , ,

Type 1 diabetes is a disease that occurs when the immune system attacks and kills the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas, known as beta-cells. Read More

Cover of Cell Reports journal featuring a blue-tinted microscopic image with textured patterns. The word Cell is colorful with cell imagery, and Reports is in bold blue text below. Issue details are in the upper right corner.

Previously Unappreciated Function of αE-catenin Uncovered by Cirulli and Crisa Labs

August 8, 2017 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , ,

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Fluorescent microscopy image showing blue, green, and red-stained cells clustered together, illustrating CCR2+ myeloid cells involved in islet proliferation from a JCI Insight journal webpage.

Crisa Lab Uncovers Novel Function of a Subset of Macrophages that Foster Pancreatic Islet Cell Growth

August 3, 2017 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , , ,

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