Some experts fear the #coronavirus crisis could harm science for decades by forcing nations to slash science budgets. Others say it could highlight the importance of science and spur long-term support. go.nature.com/30lO6HL

Congratulations to Sir Paul Nurse (CH) and to Steve Gamblin (CBE) from The Francis Crick Institute on their New Years’s Honours.

Our paper on the generation of left ventricle cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells is finally out! cell.com/cell-reports-m…

Congratulations to James Turner FRS Well deserved recognition for a great scientist royalsociety.org/news/2023/05/n…

Warm welcome to our new #BMCCardiovascDisord Editorial Board Members Laxmi Ghimire from UC San Francisco and Andreia Bernardo from Imperial College London. We look forward to working with you! Interested in joining #BMCCardiovascDisord? Visit <bmccardiovascdisord.biomedcentral.com/join-our-edito…>.

I’m ISSCR 2023 meeting and what a great start the meeting had! Highlights so far include: Kerichi Fukuda’s update on the Heartseed clinical trial (LAPiS study) Team Novo Nordisk focus session and Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz talk which made the Guardian. apple.news/A3qJ6eWsfTbeCR…

Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Zernicka-Goetz Lab Within the hour, the Science in Action attempt to educate and inform on the new human "stembryos", w Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Jacob (Yaqub) Hanna - يعقوب حنا Hank Greely Andreia Bernardo & Cambridge Reproduction's Sarah Franklin tackles the science &ethics of the new claims. #embryos #stemcells bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

and another one! @Ivana__Vasic and colleagues in @ToddMcDevitt and Shinya Yamanaka's lab Gladstone Institutes show the importance of ZO1 in BMP4 signaling in a human gastrulation model. In Developmental Cell cell.com/developmental-…

A special day for the lab! We are so proud that James was introduced as a fellow of the The Royal Society today! Congratulation again for this amazing achievement 🤩🙌

Really excited to see this work is now online! Amazing collaboration led by Smith Lab UEA. We had so much fun working on this project. Well done Ben Johnson for one more first author paper, Marie and Lorenza from my team and everyone else involved.

Day 2 of ISSCR2024 is on the way! I will be presenting our latest work on cardiomyocyte maturation today. Come and see me at poster 520 at 4:45.