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Professor David Rowitch, Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in the USA.“It is a great honour to have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine,”  said Professor Rowitch.Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honours in the fi…

We welcomed a total of 26 Postgraduate students to CSCI in October 2024, under the supervision of 14 PIs within the Institute.These students are on a variety of PhD and Masters programmes, and are based in the following labs:Wellcome MRes + PhD Programme (currently doing rotations): 6 studentsAlcolea Group – 1 x PhD StudentBarker Group – 1 x PhD St…

For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease.CSCI’s Professor Sarah Teichmann and Affiliate PI Professor Muzlifah Haniffa, with researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Newcastle University and their collaborators used single cell sequenci…

Scientists have developed a pioneering method to culture marmoset placental cells in the lab, offering new insights into embryo implantation. Unlike human embryos, which implant deeply into the uterus, marmoset embryos undergo a much shallower implantation. This research opens up new avenues for understanding the mechanisms that regulate implantati…

Researchers at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and University of Cambridge have discovered a way to extend the 'shelf life' of blood stem cells outside the body for use in gene therapy, providing patients with better treatment options and improving their outcomes. The research, published today (15 August) in Bloodfrom scientists in the Laurenti G…

Global life sciences leader Cytiva recently established a footprint in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, further developing relationships with the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) and the Milner Therapeutics Institute (MTI). These organisations are part of a thriving ecosystem of scientific research …

Today (1 July 2024) marks the official start of the Discovery Research Platform for Tissue Scale Biology (DRP-TSB) at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. With funding from Wellcome, the platform will work over the next seven years to drive new waves of discovery and translational science into the ways stem cells build, maintain and repair all our ti…

This month, the Institute held the CSCI Annual Retreat on 6 and 7 June in Cambridge.This annual event brings together CSCI researchers, Affiliate Group Leaders, and our Stem Cells Interdisciplinary Research Centre members for a day and a half of talks, posters, Institute updates, and networking outside of the office and labs. This year also feature…

Scientists in Cambridge and London have discovered novel immune responses that help explain how some individuals avoid getting COVID-19. Using single-cell sequencing, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University College London (UCL) and Imperial College London (ICL), the Netherlands Cancer Institute and their collaborators, studied im…

Epigenetic changes to DNA help explain differences in disease severity in patientsCambridge scientists from the Zilbauer Lab at Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) have grown ‘mini-guts’ in the lab to help understand Crohn’s disease, showing that ‘switches’ that modify DNA in gut cells play an important role in the disease and how it presents in p…

This month the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Technology & Innovation Forum (SCI-TIF) gathered to celebrate their 2nd Annual Networking Dinner.SCI-TIF members, CSCI Principal Investigators, and Stem Cell Interdisciplinary Research Centre members got together at SIX Restaurant at the Varsity to meet, discuss potential collaborations, and enjoy the wa…

Recently the CSCI PhD and MPhil students got together for their annual Postgraduate Away Day for a day of talks, brainstorming sessions, and a pub quiz. The event, planned by the student committee, took place on 25 April. The 25 new students from the October 2023 intake (pictured) under the supervision of 16 different PIs, were joined by several sp…

Researchers at CSCI and University of Cambridge have created the world’s largest catalogue of human breast cells, which has revealed early cell changes in healthy carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.The study, published today (28 March) in the journal Nature Genetics from researchers in the Khaled Group in the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (…

This week (Monday 18 March), members of the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, the Technology and Innovation Forum (SCI-TIF) and guests from around Cambridge convened to delve into the pressing subject of AI’s role in advancing stem cell research and medicine. The event began with a welcome by Institute’s director, Professor Bertie Göttgens, who set th…

Research published this week in Science Advances by Dr Shota Nakanoh in a collaboration between Dr Teresa Rayon’s lab at the Institute and Professor Ludovic Vallier’s lab at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute has determined that the degree of cell crowding in the early human embryo influences whether cells develop as extra-embryonic cel…