How to assemble a complete jaw
One-week-old zebrafish with jaw cartilage in blue, tendons in magenta, and jaw muscles in white. (Image by Hung-Jhen (Olivia) Chen/Crump Lab) By Cristy Lytal A USC-led ... Read More »
USC Stem Cell-led studies point the way to broadly effective treatments for ALS
By Cristy Lytal Human induced motor neurons. Motor neurons are green, and neurons are purple. (Image courtesy of the Ichida Lab) Each year in the ... Read More »
How to rewind the clock on arthritic cartilage … stat!
By Cristy Lytal DNA (Creative Commons image by Christoph Bock/Max Planck Institute for Informatics) A new study in Aging Cell describes how a key protein, called Signal Transducer ... Read More »
“The Coolest Lab at Keck School”
In a celebration postponed by COVID-19, Justin Ichida was recognized and honored as the inaugural John Douglas French Alzheimer’s Foundation Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative ... Read More »
Scientists feel the sand between their toes at the retreat for USC’s stem cell department
By Cristy Lytal Kuo-Chang (Ted) Tseng from the Crump Lab and Michelle Hung from the Ichida Lab enjoy a beachside brainstorm. (Photo by Cristy Lytal) ... Read More »
USC Stem Cell scientists Justin Ichida and Zhongwei Li receive NIH Director’s Awards
By Cristy Lytal Justin Ichida (left) and Zhongwei Li (Photos by Chris Shinn and courtesy of Zhongwei Li) It’s hard to obtain research funding for safe ... Read More »
USC COMPASS undergraduate program points the way to stem cell careers
By Cristy Lytal Students in the teaching lab at USC's stem cell research center (Photo by Chris Shinn) To promote inclusive excellence in science, USC ... Read More »
How did vertebrates first evolve jaws?
By Cristy Lytal A zebrafish showing, from left to right, the eye, the pseudobranch, and the gills (Image by Peter Fabian/Crump Lab) Five-hundred million years ... Read More »
USC Stem Cell alumni Litao Tao and Haoze (Vincent) Yu bring their A game to new positions in academia and industry
From left, Haoze (Vincent) Yu and Litao Tao (Photo courtesy of Haoze (Vincent) Yu) By Cristy Lytal Scientists Litao Tao and Haoze (Vincent) Yu were colleagues and team ... Read More »