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PhD opportunity: how does blood flow build blood stem cells?
(image generated with AI) We are looking for a motivated candidate for a fully funded 4-year BBSRC-funded PhD project as part of the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (#MIBTP). When the embryonic heart starts beating, the force of flowing blood does more than move cells around. It instructs the vessel wall to make blood stem cells, while telling neighbouring cells to sprout new vessels. How one mechanical cue produces two different fates from a single cell
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Zebrafish models unravel disease progression in GATA2 deficiency
The Monteiro group employed a zebrafish fish model to replicate what happens in patients who inherit the loss of one allele of the GATA2...
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Protocol for isolation and analysis of whole kidney marrow now published in STAR Protocols
Very happy to see this now out in Cell Press STAR PRotocols! Great work together with @Chris Mahony to publish the protocol to analyze...
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