The 11th annual Business of Regenerative Medicine: Innovation, Clinical Translation, and Entrepreneurship Symposium, is a 2-day event that will include lectures delivered by established entrepreneurs, industry and scientific leaders, panel discussions, networking events, and more. It is attended by entrepreneurs, junior and senior scientists, business executives, investors and analysts, technology transfer and development personnel, managers in the government, non-profit and…

Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the Weizmann Institute of Science have published a study on the intestinal stem cell niche in Nature. According to the study, the researchers have identified “subepithelial telocytes as an important source of Wnt proteins, without which intestinal stem cells cannot proliferate and support epithelial renewal.”     Shoshkes-Carmel, Michal, Yue J. Wang, Kirk…

    Christopher Lengner, Ph.D., associate professor in Penn’s School of Veterinary Medicine, along with lead author Maryam Yousefi (Penn graduate student) and researchers from Penn and China Agricultural University, has published a paper in Stem Cell Reports. Building on research that shows that animals fed calorie-restricted diets exhibit a better ability to regenerate tissue after injury, these researchers focused…