In a recent issue of Nature, Philipp S. Hoppe and colleagues present their work on how blood-forming cells, called hematopoietic progenitors, commit to becoming particular blood cell types. Previously, scientists thought that these choices were determined by random changes in the levels of gene regulatory proteins called transcription factors that are linked to programming different…Continue Reading What I’m reading: Rong Lu offers top pick
Month: December 2016
Rong Lu tells Cell Stem Cell about the “Path to My Lab’s First Paper”
In an interview with Cell Stem Cell, Drs. Rong Lu, Alvaro Rada-Iglesias, and Jennifer Phillips-Cremins share a behind-the-scenes look at what it took for them to set up their labs and eventually publish their group’s first paper. They share advice, surprises, and frustrations they faced along the way. To read the full article, visit cell.com/cell-stem-cell/fulltext/S1934-5909%2816%2930417-9….Continue Reading Rong Lu tells Cell Stem Cell about the “Path to My Lab’s First Paper”