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.Mikaela Esquivel did a stem cell research internship this summer in the laboratory of Peter Lorenz at Stanford University.Mikaela Esquivel submitted this photo to … Continue reading Through their lens: Mikaela Esquivel worked on a project to improve wound healing
Month: August 2013
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
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
Through their lens: Andrew Moreno gets inundated with information, and learns about tooth formation
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.Andrew Moreno did a stem cell research internship this summer in the laboratory of Jill Helms at Stanford University.Andrew Moreno in the lab. He … Continue reading Through their lens: Andrew Moreno gets inundated with information, and learns about tooth formation
Through their lens: Caroline Desler experiences the excitement and disapointment of medical 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.Caroline Desler did a stem cell research internship this summer in the laboratory of Julie Saba at Children's Hospital Oakland.Caroline Desler working in the … Continue reading Through their lens: Caroline Desler experiences the excitement and disapointment of medical research
Through their lens: Alfonso Barraza works on a Huntington’s disease therapy, learns the heartache of failed experiments
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.Alfonso Barraza did a stem cell research internship this summer in the laboratory of Jan Nolta at the University of California, Davis.Alfonso Barraza working … Continue reading Through their lens: Alfonso Barraza works on a Huntington’s disease therapy, learns the heartache of failed experiments
The New York Times and all the knees that are fit to print
Photo by Keith Kissel: 3D printer making a plastic turtleMost of the time I’m just happy if I can get a document from my computer to print out on the nearby printer, so I’m always amazed to read about people using what are essentially modified versions of these printers to create 3D models of coffee … Continue reading The New York Times and all the knees that are fit to print
Wall Street Journal video: Celgene CEO on how we know what stem cells are doing
In this blog we often discuss the fact that more often than not we do not yet know what type of stem cell is going to be the best one for treating any one disease. That has lead us to voice concern about commercial entities that promote many therapies using one cell type, which was … Continue reading Wall Street Journal video: Celgene CEO on how we know what stem cells are doing
The Stem Cellar 