Guest:
Dr. Behzad Yeganeh is an Associate Scientist at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and the University of Ottawa. His work focuses on lung development and injury. He talks about neonatal lung diseases and the mechanisms that regulate autophagy and apoptosis.
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The Stem Cell Science Round Up
Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes – Chemically induced PSC-derived islets were transplanted into a patient and led to insulin-independent glycemic control.
Giant Panda iPSCs – Primary fibroblast cells were isolated from the giant panda and used to generate iPSCs.
Pausing Blastocyst Development – Human blastoids under mTOR inhibition show a diapause-like response.
Sustaining Epithelial Cultures – Epithelioids are a facile, cost-effective method of culturing multiple mouse and human epithelia
Image courtesy of Dr. Behzad Yeganeh