The new head of the Bone Marrow Transplant section of Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is Michael Allen Pulsipher, MD. Like most CHLA physicians, he also joins the Keck School of Medicine of … Read More »

When Andy McMahon, head of USC Stem Cell, wanted a three-dimensional image of a kidney, he used to ship the organ to Australia. Now he can just send down the hall to the university’s new specialized microscope — built by five … Read More »

Can science make us immortal?

At a recent Los Angeles screening of director Tarsem Singh’s science fiction thriller Self/Less, USC Stem Cell researcher Michael Bonaguidi and University of Arizona researcher Wolfgang Fink tackled this and other big questions during a panel … Read More »

If two heads are better than one, then two labs are better as well. That concept underlies the new Doerr Stem Cell Challenge Grants in which teams of postdoctoral researchers from different USC labs receive up to $10,000 in funding … Read More »

Translating scientific discovery to practical benefit is a difficult challenge, and Christopher Austin, MD, director of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), thinks sickle cell disease is a prime example.

Although the molecular and genetic defect that causes sickle … Read More »