Stem Cell Podcast

Join us as we discuss the latest stem cell research, policy, and news with field experts. Brought to you by @STEMCELLTech.

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📢 New episode alert!

Dr. Meenal Datta (@DattaScientist) at @NDBioeng discusses how mechanical forces within tumors shape cancer progression and immune responses, with a focus on #glioblastoma.

🎙️ Tune in to the discussion: https://t.co/6QXFs4lY9e

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We hope you're pumped for next week's episode featuring Dr. Filipa Simões (@simoesfili) at @UniofOxford!

Learn all about her research on how macrophages interact with the cardiac environment to enable heart regeneration. 💓

Check out her latest work: https://t.co/MIGHW83cSi

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If you’re looking for the best talks and networking in stem cell science, #ISSCR2026 is the place to be!

From clinician-scientists to biotech founders to AI innovators to basic biologists—this meeting brings it all together. Discover the breakthroughs, technologies, and clinical insights you can take straight back to your lab.

📆 Date: July 8-11
📍 Location: Montréal.
📄 Register now: https://t.co/qGsrX5aFOV

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Deepak Srivastava, MD, describes the scientific foundations of a phase 1–2 study of stem-cell–derived ventricular assist tissue transplanted onto the epicardial surface of failing human hearts.

Learn more about the science behind the study in the editorial “Remuscularizing the Failing Human Heart,” from @GladstoneInst and @ucsf: https://t.co/MxkB8fdQNd

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Scientists have developed a human #CardiacAssembloid model that recreates neural control of #pacemaker activity and atrial conduction.

Check out the paper: https://t.co/xxKH5TfRGq
Tune into the discussion: https://t.co/PN0HT7g6B1

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In this @NatureCellBio study, researchers have developed a microwell platform that enables rapid enrichment of breast cancer stem cells for personalized drug testing. 💊

Read more: https://t.co/MmjUTKhcV5
Listen to the discussion: https://t.co/PN0HT7g6B1

[Ali Max Erturk @erturklab]

Our recent work in @Nature, MouseMapper uses foundation-model AI, mapping perturbations in mouse body cell-by-cell, revealed unexpected facial nerve damage.
Proud to see >75K accesses & >60 news stories in the first week.
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@bloodgenes Thanks for joining us! It was a great conversation!

[Fernando Martin-Belmonte @Fernand49142950]

Excited to share our new study in @NatureComms!
We uncover a key role for noncanonical autophagy (CASM) in neural tube formation through mb remodeling and endocytic recycling.
Using human neural tube organoids, we reveal mechanisms that may be relevant to neural defects. 🧠🧬

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Researchers led by Dr. @DanweiHuangfu at @MSKCancerCenter have established a stem cell-derived #organoid model that shows genetic and epigenetic mechanisms driving human pancreatic cancer initiation.

📃 https://t.co/EOD1khFKWv
🎧 https://t.co/PN0HT7g6B1

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📢 Our next episode is out!

Tune in to hear from Dr. Vijay Sankaran (@bloodgenes) at @harvardstemcell discuss how his lab uses human genetics and stem cell biology to uncover mechanisms regulating #hematopoiesis and blood disease!

🎧 Listen now: https://t.co/PN0HT7g6B1

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Stay tuned for the next episode, where we chat with Dr. Vijay Sankaran (@bloodgenes) at @harvardmed!

The Sankaran lab studies how human genetic variation impacts human blood cell production or hematopoiesis in health and disease.

Check out their latest work: https://t.co/mxAJ8XzSBw

[David Sinclair @davidasinclair]

For decades, transposons have been dismissed as a type of “junk” that causes aging & inflammation

A fascinating new paper shows a flatworm transposon can improve regeneration by protecting stem cells from stress-induced death

Could this be relevant to us? 🧵@CellCellPress

[Sergiu P. Pasca @Sergiu_P_Pasca]

This week we welcome here at @Stanford a remarkable cohort of students from all the over the world for our hands-on course on human brain #assembloids and #organoids!

Amazing energy as they learn methods and approaches developed in the lab over the years, and as we discuss and troubleshoot the projects they are building back home.

I am incredibly grateful to my entire lab for teaching this course with such dedication every year, and especially to the 3 superstars directing it: Merve Avar & Sabina Kanton & Rebecca Levy!

This free-of-charge, annual course organized by our Stanford @BrOrganogenesis Center has helped hundreds of laboratories around the world adopt human stem cell models to study evolution, development, and disease.

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Stay ahead of the latest breakthroughs in ESC & #iPSC biology with STEMCELL Science News.

Subscribe to any of 20 Science News newsletters by June 30th for a chance to win: https://t.co/Z4wvRGoNZL

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📢New in @NatureGenet!

Researchers led by Dr. @MatLupien at @pmcancercentre have shown that #TransposableElements regulate #leukemia stem cell stemness and patient outcomes in #AML by shaping chromatin accessibility and gene regulation.

🧬 Learn more: https://t.co/6ADYxgQeq9

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Leveraging a perturb-seq platform tailored to complex pathological environments, researchers at @pku1898 systematically compared and ranked 140 potential barriers of in vivo cardiac reprogramming.

🔬 Read more: https://t.co/UwZqNCFfPD
🎙️Tune in: https://t.co/kDIodvuklD

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This new @CellCellPress paper out of @PKU1898 demonstrates that p53 is essential for chemical reprogramming, unlike its inhibitory role in transcription factor-mediated reprogramming.

🧪 Read more: https://t.co/3dk6oe3Zeg
🎧 Listen in on the discussion: https://t.co/wgSfRnSzvy

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Check out this @ScienceMagazine paper!

Scientists at @RockefellerUniv have discovered that #CRISPR-edited hematopoietic stem cells generate B cells that produce durable, protective antibodies following vaccination.

📄 https://t.co/7qP3T3m6fI
🎧 https://t.co/kDIodvuklD

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📢 We've got a new episode out for you now!

We chat with Dr. Andrew Gaffney at @STEMCELLTech about how his team is advancing PSC applications through high-quality #iPSC line development, gene editing, organoid production, and GMP manufacturing for translational and clinical use.

🎧 Check it out: https://t.co/5D0URwxNi9