How to assemble a complete jaw
One-week-old zebrafish with jaw cartilage in blue, tendons in magenta, and jaw muscles in white. (Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen/Crump Lab) By Cristy Lytal A USC-led ... Read More »
“The Coolest Lab at Keck School”
In a celebration postponed by COVID-19, Justin Ichida was recognized and honored as the inaugural John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative ... Read More »
Newborn cells in the epileptic brain provide a potential target for treatment
Over the years, everyone loses a few brain cells. A study led by scientists from USC Stem Cell and the USC Neurorestoration Center presents evidence that adults can replenish at least some of what they’ve lost by generating new brain cells, and that this process is dramatically altered in patients with long-term epilepsy.
USC Stem Cell scientists make big progress in building mini-kidneys
"Our progress in creating new types of kidney organoids provides powerful tools for not only understanding development and disease, but also finding new treatments."
What is the USC Ombuds?
From right, USC Ombuds Katherine Greenwood and Thomas Kosakowski, and Ombuds Office Coordinator Marlene Lozano (Photo courtesy of the USC Office of the Ombuds) Stress levels ... Read More »
Shanghai Cell Therapy Group launches collaboration with USC researcher to improve the ex vivo expansion of hematopoietic stem cells for clinical applications
Qi-Long Ying (Photo by Chris Shinn) Shanghai Cell Therapy Group (SHCell) recently entered into a six-year research collaborative project with Professor Qi-Long Ying from the University ... Read More »
USC scientists use brain organoids to study intellectual disability, with support from the SynGAP Research Fund
Twenty-day-old cortical organoid (Image by Tuan Nguyen/Quadrato Lab) Maybe a child misses a developmental milestone, such as rolling over, or saying that first word. Perhaps the ... Read More »