Guest: Dr. Blair Benham-Pyle is an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. She talks about how multipotent cells in Schmidtea mediterranea enable whole-body regeneration. She also discusses the effects of the mechanical environment on stem cell fate. Featured Products and Resources: Register for ISSCR 2024! Get updates about new mentorship content from Lab Coats & Life™ The Stem Cell Science Round Up Antibodies to Rejuvenate the Immune System – Depleting myeloid-biased HSCs in aged mice restores features of a more youthful immune system. Infant Intestinal P ..read more

Guests: Dr. Amander Clark is the President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) and Founding Director of the Center for Reproductive Science, Health, and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Agnete Kirkeby is a Program Chair of the ISSCR Annual Meeting, Associate Professor at Lund University and the University of Copenhagen, and Group Leader at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Biology – reNEW. Dr. Malin Parmar is a Program Chair of the ISSCR Annual Meeting, Professor at Lund University, and a New York Stem Cell Foundation – Rob ..read more

Guest: Dr. Marissa Scavuzzo is an HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on enteric glia regulation in the healthy and diseased gut. She talks about how glial cell subtypes affect intestinal motility and her experience receiving NYSCF and HHMI fellowships. She also talks about bringing science to underserved schools in Cleveland. Featured Products and Resources: Submit your abstract now for ISSCR 2024! Learn about mentorship and careers in science by listening to the new Lab Coats & Life™ Podcast. The Stem Cell Science R ..read more

Guest: Dr. Ritu Raman is the d’Arbeloff Career Development Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT, where her lab uses robotics and tissue engineering to treat muscle loss. She talks about light-activated muscle grafts, magnetic microparticles to control forces exerted on cells, and strategies for science communication. Featured Products and Resources: Register now for ISSCR 2024, happening July 10-13 in Hamburg, Germany. The Lab Coats & Life™ Podcast features conversations about useful soft skills, relevant trends, and important efforts from within the scienti ..read more

Guest: Dr. Shiri Gur-Cohen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Regenerative Medicine at UC San Diego. Her lab studies epithelial stem cells throughout their lifetimes. She talks about lymphatics in the intestinal stem cell niche, 3D imaging techniques, and sharing her science with a wider audience. Featured Products and Resources: Submit your abstract for ISSCR 2024! Get updates about new mentorship content from STEMCELL. The Stem Cell Science Round Up Non-Invasive Organoid Monitoring – Flexible electronics enable chronic recording of cortical organoids fo ..read more

Guest: Dr. Malin Parmar is a Professor at Lund University and a New York Stem Cell Foundation – Robertson Investigator. Her research aims to understand cell fate specification in the developing brain and in human neural progenitor cells using cell-based models of neuronal differentiation. She talks about using assembloids to model the dopaminergic system, direct reprogramming somatic cells into induced neurons, and developing ESC-derived dopamine progenitor cells to treat Parkinson’s disease. Featured Products and Resources: Submit your abstract for ISSCR 2024 before February 1 ..read more

Guest: Dr. Olivier Pourquié is the Frank Burr Mallory Professor of Pathology and Professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School. His work focuses on the segmentation clock and the development of muscles and vertebrae. He talks about studying somitogenesis in vitro and his work on brown fat development. Featured Products and Resources: Register now for ISSCR 2024! Derive and expand with MyoCult™-SF Expansion Medium. The Stem Cell Science Round Up A GENtoniK Cocktail – A small molecule cocktail accelerates the maturation of hPSC-derived neurons. Pancreati ..read more

Guests: Dr. Hwee Goon Tay is an Assistant Professor at the Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School and Dr. Beau Fenner is an Ophthalmologist at the Singapore National Eye Centre. Their work focuses on cell therapy for degenerative retinal diseases. They talk about strategies to slow degeneration and potentially restore vision. Featured Products and Resources: Enter to win up to $500 USD towards your registration fee for a cell and gene therapy conference. Explore STEMCELL Technologies’ resources on PSC quality. The Stem Cell Round Up A Hypoblast from hPSCs – Researchers use ..read more

Guest: Dr. Jose Polo is a Professor of Epigenetics and the Director of the Centre for Epigenetics at the University of Adelaide. He is also a Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology at Monash University. His lab studies the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms that govern cell identity. He talks about his team’s work on cell fate, iBlastoids, and placental models for SARS-CoV-2. Featured Products and Resources: Enter to win up to $500 USD towards your registration fee for a cell and gene therapy conference. Explore STEMCELL Technologies’ resou ..read more

Guests: Dr. Stefan Irion is the Chief Scientific Officer of BlueRock Therapeutics and Dr. Viviane Tabar is the Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.  In this special episode, recorded in front of a live audience in New York, they talk about their work on BlueRock’s clinical trial for bemdaneprocel — a stem cell-derived investigational cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease. They also discuss what’s next for cell therapy and diversity in science and in patients. Featured Products and Resources: Enter to win up to $500 USD towards your regist ..read more