Dr. Hanna Mikkola; Photo courtesy UCLA It’s always nice when someone whose work you have supported is honored for their achievement, so we were naturally delighted to hear that Dr. Hanna Mikkola from UCLA has been named as the winner of the 2013 McCulloch and Till Award. The prestigious award, from the Society for Hematology … Continue reading Hanna Mikkola wins prestigious award for work in unlocking the secrets of blood stem cells
Month: August 2013
Through their lens: Vanessa Yu is driven by the possibility of improving lives through research
This summer we're sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California. We asked those students to contribute to our Instagram photos and YouTube videos about life in the lab, and write about their experiences.Vanessa Yu is a rising senior at Arcadia High School. This summer, she worked in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology at the City of … Continue reading Through their lens: Vanessa Yu is driven by the possibility of improving lives through research
Scar-forming cells in the heart converted directly into beating heart muscle
Last year, our grantees at Gladstone Institutes worked a neat trick: they converted the scar-forming cells of the heart directly into beating heart cells in living mice. (We wrote about that work here.)The cells they converted, also called fibroblasts, are the ones that create scar tissue in the heart after a heart attack. Their work … Continue reading Scar-forming cells in the heart converted directly into beating heart muscle
Through their lens: Alexander Seutin learns how computer technology can help unlock secrets of blood cancers
This summer we're sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California. We asked those students to contribute to our Instagram photos and YouTube videos about life in the lab, and write about their experiences.Alexander Seutin did a stem cell research internship this summer in the laboratory of Ravi Majeti at Stanford University.This summer I worked at the … Continue reading Through their lens: Alexander Seutin learns how computer technology can help unlock secrets of blood cancers
Through their lens: Ami Thakrar finds a career path in the lab
This summer we're sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California. We asked those students to contribute to our Instagram photos and YouTube videos about life in the lab, and write about their experiences.Ami Thakrar did a stem cell research internship this summer in the laboratory of Joel Rothman at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Thakrar working … Continue reading Through their lens: Ami Thakrar finds a career path in the lab
Through their lens: Christina Bui tries to understand how a protein guides new neural stem cells
This summer we're sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California. We asked those students to contribute to our Instagram photos and YouTube videos about life in the lab, and write about their experiences.Christina Bui did a stem cell research internship this summer in the laboratory of Theo Palmer at Stanford University.Christina Bui submitted this photo showing … Continue reading Through their lens: Christina Bui tries to understand how a protein guides new neural stem cells
Through their lens: Gloria del Rosario Castaneda learns that research is research because there are still unanswered questions
This summer we're sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California. We asked those students to contribute to our Instagram photos and YouTube videos about life in the lab, and write about their experiences.Gloria del Rosario Castaneda did a stem cell research internship this summer in the laboratory of Fan Yang at Stanford University.Gloria del Rosario Castaneda … Continue reading Through their lens: Gloria del Rosario Castaneda learns that research is research because there are still unanswered questions
Bringing embryonic stem cell transplants closer to reality by quieting the immune response
A novel way of suppressing the immune system could make transplants of human embryonic stem cells a clinical possibility, according to new research by Stanford stem cell scientists.Human embryonic stem cells (hESC) offer a tantalizing prospect for new therapies, but first we have to figure out how to get them past our immune system’s defenses. … Continue reading Bringing embryonic stem cell transplants closer to reality by quieting the immune response
Through their lens: Margaret Shen studies a blood disease, learns that research is social
This summer we're sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California. We asked those students to contribute to our Instagram photos and YouTube videos about life in the lab, and write about their experiences.Margaret Shen, is originally from Fremont, California. She will be attending Stanford this coming fall. Over the summer, she has … Continue reading Through their lens: Margaret Shen studies a blood disease, learns that research is social
Through their lens: Ted Zhu learns the thrill of the “aha!” moment while working on blood cancer
This summer we're sponsoring high school interns in stem cell labs throughout California. We asked those students to contribute to our Instagram photos and YouTube videos about life in the lab, and write about their experiences.Ted Zhu will be a junior at Walnut High School. He works in Dr. Ren-Jang Lin’s lab, where he is designing a site-specific nuclease … Continue reading Through their lens: Ted Zhu learns the thrill of the “aha!” moment while working on blood cancer