The Berkeley Stem Cell Center

The Berkeley Stem Cell Center brings together investigators at UC Berkeley, Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland and Lawrence Berkley National Laboratory, in a collaborative, creative, multidisciplinary research environment. The Center's mission is to carry out the highest quality basic and translational stem cell research toward development of novel therapies for human disease.

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Daniela Kaufer, a Cal biology professor and Elizabeth Kirby, a post-doc at UC Berkeley, showed in studies on rats that acute stress enhances adult rat hippocampal neurogenesis and activation of newborn neurons via secreted astrocytic FGF2. eLife, San Francisco Business Times, eWallstreeter, San Francisco City and Press and Global Ne.Ws
Michael Rape wins Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Research
A new study in Nature Neuroscience from Schaffer lab found "Astrocytes regulate adult hippocampal neurogenesis through ephrin-B signaling"
A new study in Cell reports from Danica Chen and David T. Scadden found "SIRT3 Reverses Aging-Associated Degeneration"
Stem Cells Young Investigator Award 2012 (pages 223–226)
Sanjay Kumar
Article first published online: 12 FEB 2013 | DOI: 10.1002/stem.1310
New Study Finds Stem Cells Contribute to Cardiovascular Disease: Multipotent vascular stem cells, newly identified by Prof. Song Li’s laboratory, may be a major driving force behind heart attacks and other vascular diseases. Read more... FoxNews.com, US News & World Report, Daily Mail (UK), San Francisco Business Times, Everyday Health, Google News.