USC Stem Cell junior faculty balance babies with biomedical research
Junior faculty (Photo by Sergio Bianco) Growing stem cells isn’t just something junior faculty do in the lab. Eight of the junior faculty in the Department of Stem ... Read More »
$10 million gift from Broad Foundation advances USC stem cell research on aging-associated disease
The $10 million donation from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation will support the USC stem cell research center’s core facilities and training programs, enable recruitment and ... Read More »
Messenger cells offer new insights into bone healing
How do bones heal, and how could they heal better? The answer to these questions may lie in a newly discovered population of “messenger” cells, according to a ... Read More »
Messenger cells bring good news for bone healing
From right, USC Stem Cell scientists Francesca Mariani and Stephanie T. Kuwahara (Photo by Sergio Bianco) How do bones heal, and how could they heal better? ... Read More »
Stem cell scientist Giorgia Quadrato joins USC’s brain trust
Giorgia Quadrato (Photo by Sergio Bianco) Giorgia Quadrato loves a good challenge. That’s why USC’s newest assistant professor of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine currently ... Read More »
Stem cell scientists take it one cell at a time at the Junior Faculty Candidate Mini-symposium
Cells should be treated as individuals, according to the scientists who presented research at the Junior Faculty Candidate Mini-symposium, hosted by USC’s Department of Stem Cell Biology and ... Read More »
NIH awards USC Stem Cell scientist Denis Evseenko $1,69 million to study arthritis and aging
What causes joints to age, lose their regenerative capacity and succumb to arthritis, and how can we slow this process? To address these questions, the National Institutes of ... Read More »
USC Stem Cell acquires two instruments to advance state-of-the-art cell sorting
When it comes to sorting cells or other small particles, there’s no better place to do so than USC. The university’s Flow Cytometry Facility recently acquired two top-of-the-line cell sorters, ... Read More »
Stem cell study offers clues for optimizing bone marrow transplants and more
Bone marrow transplants, which involve transplanting healthy blood stem cells, offer the best treatment for many types of cancers, blood disorders and immune diseases. Even though 22,000 of ... Read More »