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In a multi-institution project, scientists will track genetic mutations occurring across the lifetime of 150 healthy individuals with the aim of understanding how they affect development, aging, and disease.
- July 03, 2025Source: Springer Nature
Coorens, T.H.H., Oh, J.W., Choi, Y.A. et al. The Somatic Mosaicism across Human Tissues Network. Nature 643, 47–59 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09096-7
- May 01, 2025Source: Yale News
A new Yale study offers new insight into how morphogens help regulate the development of stem cells into specialized brain cells.
- May 01, 2025Source: Elsevier
Specification of human brain regions with orthogonal gradients of WNT and SHH in organoids reveals patterning variations across cell lines. Scuderi S, Kang TY, Jourdon A, Nelson A, Yang L, Wu F, Anderson GM, Mariani J, Tomasini L, Sarangi V, Abyzov A, Levchenko A, Vaccarino FM. Cell Stem Cell. 2025 Apr 28; 2025 Apr 28. PMID: 40315847.
- April 15, 2025Source: Society of Biological Psychiatry
Interneuron loss and microglia activation by transcriptome analyses in the basal ganglia of Tourette disorder. Wang Y, Fasching L, Wu F, Suvakov M, Huttner A, Berretta S, Roberts R, Leckman JF, Fernandez TV, Abyzov A, Vaccarino FM. Biol Psychiatry. 2025 Jan 30; 2025 Jan 30. PMID: 39892689.
- December 09, 2024Source: Springer Nature
A framework for neural organoids, assembloids and transplantation studies. Pașca SP, Arlotta P, Bateup HS, Camp JG, Cappello S, Gage FH, Knoblich JA, Kriegstein AR, Lancaster MA, Ming GL, Novarino G, Okano H, Parmar M, Park IH, Reiner O, Song H, Studer L, Takahashi J, Temple S, Testa G, Treutlein B, Vaccarino FM, Vanderhaeghen P, Young-Pearse T. Nature. 2024 Dec 9; 2024 Dec 9. PMID: 39653126.
- November 01, 2024Source: Organizers: G Fishell, AR Kriegstein, Z Molnár and F Vaccarino
Neural Stem Cells to Neural Circuits Giardini Naxos, Sicily, Italy - 25 May to 28 May 2025
- October 09, 2024
Two distinguished Yale professors, Dr. Hongyu Zhao, PhD, and Dr. Mark Gerstein, PhD, have been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to advance the Developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx) project. This landmark initiative aims to unravel the complexities of gene expression patterns across developmental stages, providing critical insights into genetic influences on health and disease.
- June 03, 2024Source: Yale Kavli Institute for Neuroscience
Congratulations to Soraya Scuderi, associate research scientist in the Vaccarino lab, for receiving a 2024 Postdoc Mentor Award!
- April 02, 2024Source: American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Yale President Peter Salovey hosted a celebration of stem cell biologist Haifan Lin as he received the Amory Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.