A huge thank you to all who attended the 2nd Annual Greater LA Area Regenerative Medicine Summit at beautiful UCLA Lake Arrowhead Lodge! 🌲🏞️☀️
Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai Children's Hospital LA UC Santa Barbara City of Hope UCI Stem Cell Caltech UC Riverside CIRM
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Lots of great ideas and discussions on regenerative medicine at the 2nd Annual Regenerative Medicine Consortium in beautiful Lake Arrowhead. Strong Cedars rep with Clive Svendsen Arun Sharma Dhruv Sareen and yours truly. CIRM

Good morning from beautiful Lake Arrowhead, home to the 2nd Annual Greater LA Regenerative Medicine Summit! ☀️ ⛰️

Great to reconnect with colleagues and trainees from the stem cell institutes in the LA area.

Regenerative Medicine Institute at Cedars-Sinai UCLA Broad Stem Cell USC Stem Cell UCI Stem Cell…

Join us on May 28 to hear from amazing Arun Sharma how iPSC can help model cardiovascular diseases. 🌟📣UCSD Sanford Stem Cell Institute UC San Diego Health Sciences

Starting Chapter 2 of @cedarssinai @caltech joint symposium… looking forward to awesome discussions!

And in the roundup:

1) Oncogenesis ex vivo ♋️
Matthias Lutolf L. Francisco Lorenzo Martín

2) Human embryo gastrulation 🧫
Cell Press

3) Treating Timothy Syndrome 🧬
Sergiu P. Pasca Xiaoyu Chen Fikri Birey

4) Sympathetic neuron evolution 🐟
Bronner Lab Caltech CES

In a pair of studies published in Cell today, we used interspecies blastocyst complementation to study brain function and evolution. cell.com/cell/fulltext/….
cell.com/cell/fulltext/….

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And in the roundup:

1) Modeling traumatic brain injury 🧠
USC Stem Cell

2) Spinal cord organoids 🧫
Cell Stem Cell

3) HSC editing for HIV 🦠
Amanda Dudek 🦠👩‍🔬 Stanford Medicine

4) Hepatocyte organoids 🧫
Cell Stem Cell

Wondering why we’ve been sending stem cells into space? In this review, Arun Sharma & colleagues explain how magnetic fields, shear stress & gravity impact stem cells, and why low earth orbit provides interesting opportunities for regenerative medicine: liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.108…

The field of xenotransplantation continues to rapidly grow and impress!

Great article about last week’s Research Day – congrats to Amelia Andrews from the Goodridge Lab on her poster award and a nice shout-out to Madelyn Arzt in the Arun Sharma lab too! Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine
cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/resea…

Follow, follow the Sun / And which way the wind blows / When this day is done 🎶

Today, April 8, 2024, the last total solar #eclipse until 2045 crossed North America.

The Benefits of Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Engineering in Low-Earth Orbit 🚀

A new review from our lab, featured on the cover of Stem Cells and Development! Free open access link below: 🔓

liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/sc…

And in the roundup:

1) Rejuvenating the immune system 🩸
Stanford Immunology Stanford Stem Cell

2) The gut-brain axis 🧠
Duke MPI Duke Pediatric Research

3) Cell fate and brain development ⭕️
Alexandre Baffet Clarisse Brunet

4) Autofluorescence and NSCs 💡
Chris Morrow Cell Stem Cell

NASA astronaut Kate Rubins conducted hundreds of experiments during her time on the @Space_station, but as a biologist, one stood out above others. Read a Q&A on this pioneering research including how she 'geeked out' over a microscope. #biotech
Details: ow.ly/stRB50R6W3h

Eclipse phases 🌞🌑🌎

Are you planning to view the solar #eclipse on April 8!?

Here’s what to expect: go.nasa.gov/49fGaYf

Big news for the local LA stem cell community. Welcome Chuck!

Outstanding Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine #Research Day keynote by David R. Liu, inventor of prime editing. In 8 short years of mind-bending productivity, this exquisitely #targeted #gene modification approach is approved for #FIH testing. Amazing!