What I’m Reading: Rong Lu offers a top pick

In a recent issue of Nature, Fan Zhou, Bing Liu and colleagues present their work on tracing the developmental origin of blood stem cells, also known as hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), in mice. Interestingly, grafts of single HSC precursor cells from 11-day-old mouse embryos showed quite different capacities to repopulate the blood. Analysis of gene Read More…

Rong Lu’s lab receives an Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Award in collaboration with Keyue Shen’s lab

Rong Lu and Keyue Shen have won one of the inaugural Eli and Edythe Broad Innovation Awards in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC. The team will pioneer an “organ-in-a-dish” approach for studying the stem cells in bone marrow. To read more, visit stemcell.usc.edu/2016/06/23/usc-stem-cell-researchers-receive-the-inaugural-broad-innovation-awards.