Recent Laboratory News:
San Diego Tribune
2025/09-05: UCSD research find ‘volume control’ that genetically separates humans from chimps
KPBS
2025/08-19: Scientists examine genetic origins of the human brain
Science Daily
2025/08-15: Scientists may have found the tiny DNA switch that made us human
Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
2025/08-13: Rapidly Evolving Human Genomic Region Tied to Neural Development, Flexible Thinking
UC San Diego Today
2025/08-13: A Genetic Twist that Sets Humans Apart
Other Stories on Our Work:
2020/07-15: Lab-grown human sperm cells could unlock treatments for infertility.
2020/07-13: Human Sperm Stem Cells Grown in Lab, an Early Step Toward Infertility Treatment.
2019/02-05: How Men Continually Produce Sperm — and How that Discovery Could Help Treat Infertility.
2018/12-20: The Fragile-X Gene Region has a “Brain-Testes” MicroRNA Cluster
2017/09-29: New Mouse Model Replicates an Underlying Cause of Intellectual Disability
2016/09-28: Gene required for sperm stem cells linked to male infertility, UCSD study suggests
2016/09-27: Researchers Find Fertility Genes Required for Sperm Stem Cells
2016/06-27: Researchers Find a Likely Cause of Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumors
2016/06-14: Filling the Holes in our Understanding of Stem Cell Fate
2016/03-31: Underappreciated Protein Plays Critical Role In RNA Regulation and Male Fertility
2015/ 03-25 : Control Switch That Modulates Cell Stress Response May Be Key to Multiple Diseases
2014/05-25: Gene Mutation Found for Aggressive Form of Pancreatic Cancer
2014/02-13 : Protein Switch Dictates Cellular Fate: Stem Cell or Neuron
2011/ 09-15: Fail-Safe System May Lead to Cures for Inherited Disorders
2011/05-19: Of Frogs, Chickens and People
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