A Strong Foundation Makes For A Strong House: New Understandings in Embryonic Epithelial Development
In an article published in genengnews.com, the findings of a research study “Topological Morphogenesis of Neuroepithelial Organoids” discovered new information about cell-to-cell tissue...
Microfluidic Chips
"Fluidics" is the information extracted from bodily fluids and the understanding of liquids or fluids using small diameter volumes. Hippocrates (400 BC), Galen (200 AD) and Theophilus (700 AD) were...
Exosomes
Thirty (30) years ago, exosomes were first described as extracellular vesicles (References 1 and 5). Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are cell derived membrane structures. They are secreted as a result...
Symposium Roundup from World Preclinical Congress Europe, 27th-30th November 2018, Lisbon
The increasing complexity of novel therapies calls for disease models that take us closer than ever before to the in vivo situation, to maximize efficacy and safety evaluations of new experimental...
10-Years of iPSCs: looking back and looking forward
Recently, Cell Symposia celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the seminal publication on inducible pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). An audience of scientists from academia, biotech and pharma...
Learning from the Experts: An Interview with Nick Oswald, PhD., Founder and Managing Director of BitesizeBio.com and Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Catalytic Content
"You just stay the course, and do what it is that you do, and grow while you're doing it. Eventually it will either come full circle, or at least you'll go to bed at night happy." – Jon Bon Jovi...
Learning from the Experts: An Interview with Ruby Yanru Chen-Tsai, PhD, CSO, SVP and Co-founder of Applied StemCells Inc.
"A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales." - Marie Curie "All my life through, the...
Learning from the Experts: An Interview with Ellen Moran, PhD., Lab Manager
Scientists are the explorers of the great unknown. They thrive on the inherently mysterious nature of their work and utilize their knowledge and instincts to engage with, better understand and...