USC’s Rong Lu and Caltech’s Michael B. Elowitz win the NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award for their new approach to study blood and immune cell production in bone marrow

Is it possible to study the production of blood and immune cells inside the bone marrow? For the first time ever, the answer is yes, thanks to a new approach pioneered by USC Stem Cell scientist Rong Lu and Caltech synthetic biologist Michael B. Elowitz, together with co-investigators Carlos Lois and Lior Pachter at Caltech. Read More…

The Scientist features Lu Lab research

The Scientist recently featured research from the Lu Lab that was published in Science Advances, describing how coupling cell lineage tracking with molecular gene expression patterns can help decipher how gene activity influences immune cell production. Read more at https://www.the-scientist.com/using-genetic-cartography-to-map-cell-lineage-71854.