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Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, led by Emery Bresnick, Professor, Cell and Regenerative Biology, have revealed the function of a small chromosome segment directly responsible for a subset of myeloid leukemias. Knowing the origin could give researchers and clinicians a way to specifically treat the cause of the disease, rather than using general therapies …
Barak Blum has joined the Dept of Cell and Regenerative Biology as our newest Assistant Professor. Barak’s research interests include Regulation of terminal differentiation and functional maturation of stem and progenitor cells, regenerative biology of the endocrine pancreas and diabetes . Barak comes to us most recently from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. Welcome to …
Kyle Hewitt, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Emery Bresnick, Professor, Cell and Rengenerative Biology, is the first author of Hematopoietic Signaling Mechanism Revealed from a Stem/Progenitor Cell Cistrome, which appears in the July 2, 2015 issue of Molecular Cell. The authors discovered an ensemble of DNA sequences in the mouse and human genomes …
Stem Cell advances at UW–Madison by James Thomson, Professor, Cell and Rengenerative Biology, and colleagues, and their application to treatment of serious human afflictions like blindness and ALS, are the focus of a new feature article on “The Why Files – The Science Behind The News” The complete article is at: http://whyfiles.org/2014/stem-cell-advance/.