UCSF Broad Stem Cell

Discovering the inner workings of stem cells, engineering treatments using genome editing tools, and healing patients by developing life-saving therapies.

[UCSF Broad Stem Cell @UCSFstemcell]

Could the immune system hold clues to preterm birth?

New research from E. Rackaityte, et al. identifies autoantibodies linked to early labor in some pregnancies, opening doors to better risk prediction and potential treatments.

https://t.co/25CTcgNq2n

[California Institute for Regenerative Medicine @CIRMnews]

#StemCellAwarenessDay, launched by California in 2008, makes regenerative medicine science accessible and inspiring. Explore some cartoons and activities by CIRM SPARK high school interns—and inspire tomorrow’s innovators!

[ISSCR @ISSCR]

Registration and abstract submissions are now open for the #ISSCR2027 Annual Meeting! Join us in San Francisco, USA, 15-18 June 2027. Explore the program, speakers, and the many opportunities the meeting offers 👉 https://t.co/RwCH07VFZf

[UCSF Broad Stem Cell @UCSFstemcell]

Happy #StemCellAwarenessDay! Celebrating the scientists, discoveries, and innovations advancing stem cell research with @UCLAstemcell @USCStemCell 🔬🧬

[UCLA Broad Stem Cell @UCLAstemcell]

To celebrate #StemCellAwarenessDay, we've put together a quick explainer on stem cells: what they are and why they matter! 🧪
#UCLAStemCell #ResearchPowersProgress #StemCellResearch

[California Institute for Regenerative Medicine @CIRMnews]

From CIRM trainee to lab leader: Mercedes Paredes, MD, PhD, is advancing research on neuropsychiatric diseases—and mentoring the next generation of regenerative medicine talent. Read Mercedes' story: https://t.co/zLP2ULKBoB

[allen institute @AllenInstitute]

How does a small pool of stem cells build a brain with hundreds of cell types, each in the right place? A new Nature paper from UCSF and the Allen Institute follows the forebrain's family tree to find out. Read the paper in Nature: https://t.co/1WdFnGYBze

[University of California @UofCalifornia]

A major milestone for California research — @CAGovernor Newsom has signed SB 895, the California Science and Health Research Bond Act, placing $7.5 billion in research funding before California voters on the March 2028 ballot.

Reaching this point took an extraordinary effort from researchers, students, patients, and advocates from across California.

To everyone who spoke up in support of investing in California research: thank you.

[HHMI @hhmi_science]

Postdoc or early career faculty? Applications for our '28 #FreemanHrabowski Scholars & #HannaGray Fellows Programs open 11/3! Prep by joining us 10/22 @ 2pm ET for a live informational webinar with the HHMI Science Programs team. Register at https://t.co/VccJM1JC1E.

[nature @Nature]

Nature research paper: Spatiotemporal clonal architecture of the newborn mouse forebrain

https://t.co/eHKeNK57EW

[craniofacialgenetics @SCGDB1]

We kicked off #SCGDB2026 with exciting awards talks from Dr. Licia Selleri and Dr. Katherine Fantauzzo, pictured with SCGDB President Dr. Matthew Harris

[Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @IHG_at_UCSF]

Thanks to Deepak Srivastava, Steven Froelich, Jenny Hamilton, Mary McMahon, Aaron Tward, Marina Bershteyn, Kanya Rajangam, Deepak A. Lamba, Seyedeh Faranak Fattahi, Aaron Wenger, Siyuan Chen, Elena Cassidy, Jesse Eaton, and Peng He for your outstanding Genotech Symposium talks!

[ISSCR @ISSCR]

📢 The ISSCR is now accepting nominations for the 2027 ISSCR Board of Directors and the Society's annual awards. Nominations are due 16 October. Learn more 👉https://t.co/fGkqgyJYjF

[nature @Nature]

Many scientists have long thought that a single type of starter cell gives rise to the entire brain. But experiments now challenge that fundamental picture, providing evidence that it takes not one but two flavours of progenitor cell to make the complex organ.

https://t.co/YJAhqtFSfK

[Nathaniel David @NathanielEDavid]

Spoiler alert: you have two brains. The front of your brain and the back of your brain were never the same organ. They start as two different cells, in two different places, and they have been separate lineages for something like 550 million years.

https://t.co/IgkMlsJPGl

[allen institute @AllenInstitute]

How does brain tissue become data? Through a massive collaborative effort supported by the Brain Initiative Cell Atlas Network (BICAN), learn how scientists are creating a comprehensive map of the human brain.

[ISSCR @ISSCR]

Call for applications! The ISSCR invites early career investigators to apply to become an #ISSCR2027 Ambassador. Applications are due 23 October 2026. Learn more 👉https://t.co/Cd1o5igAvr

[Institute for Human Genetics at UCSF @IHG_at_UCSF]

Take a break and have lunch with @NovogeneAmerica :)
https://t.co/rum2cPol7h

[UCSF Neurosurgery @NeurosurgUCSF]

In this week’s issue of @Nature, @sajadtweets, @evsemenza, @danlimlab & their colleagues uncover how a gene's location — at the nuclear lamina in storage or near nuclear speckles — plays a key role in regulating its activity during human brain development. https://t.co/YMnjbC8UQH

[Gladstone Institutes @GladstoneInst]

Meet Lexi Schneider from the Yang Lab! She's developing a groundbreaking tool called TORCH to help scientists understand how the brain and body talk to each other—something that's been notoriously hard to study.

[UCSF Neurosurgery @NeurosurgUCSF]

Great piece by @GiorgiaWithAnI in @_TheTransmitter on work by @danlimlab in @Nature showing how nuclear location helps control gene activity during brain development:
https://t.co/bfS7DIfLgF