01 Smooth muscle cells created from patients’ skin cells
02 A novel therapy with potential for treating Parkinson’s disease
03 Professor Arthur Kaser Heads Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
04 Targeted gene correction of alpha1-antitrypsin deficiency
05 Dr Jane Goodall awarded an Arthritis Research UK, Senior Fellowship
06 New Lecturer in Transfusion/Transplantation Virology Joins the Department Researchers from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (Dr Sanjay Sinha and Ms Christine Cheung) and the Laboratory for Regenerative Medicine (Prof Roger Pedersen and Dr Andreia Bernardo) have for the first time been able to reproduce three of the major embryonic developmental pathways for vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) in the culture dish. This system will allow the investigators to study how SMC origin affects development of vascular disease, to model genetic vascular diseases such as Marfans syndrome and represents an important step … [Read More...]
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