Navajo scientist alarmed at COVID curve on rez

by jowilliams | Dec 17, 2020 | Press

From his home in the San Francisco Bay area, Diné molecular biology professor Wilfred Denetclaw has followed the statistics on the spread of the coronavirus on the Navajo Nation with increasing alarm.

Engineering biological pattern formation with synthetic morphogens (Wendell Lim, Satoshi Toda)

by jowilliams | Nov 5, 2020 | Press

Researchers at Kanazawa University report, in Science how concentration gradients of particular molecules (‘synthetic morphogens’) can be produced in biological systems. Such gradients can be exploited for programming pattern formation, offering the...

Synthetic signals could help control tissue regeneration, guide cellular therapies (Wendell Lim, Satoshi, Toda)

by jowilliams | Oct 16, 2020 | Press

For a tiny embryo to develop into an adult organism, its cells must develop in precise patterns and interact with their neighbors in carefully orchestrated ways.

Engineered developmental signals could illuminate regenerative medicine

by jowilliams | Oct 15, 2020 | Press

Synthetic ‘morphogens’ can guide tissue complex tissue development, twin studies show.

$2 million in grants to deliver cutting-edge equipment for student research

by jowilliams | Oct 13, 2020 | Press

Funding will let SF State students gain experience in machine learning, cellular engineering and more.