January 8, 2009

Regenerative Sciences Institute is accepting applications for the 2009 RSI Undergraduate Biology Fellows and iGEM Programs. These programs are designed to give undergraduates experience in basic lab protocols, molecular biology techniques, and the chance to work on important research projects on aging, stem cells and synthetic biology. More details are available here.

November 9, 2008

Cambridge, MA. The RSI 2008 iGEM team presented data demonstrating proof-of-concept for a new strategy to target programmed cardiomyocytes to damaged myocardium. More information and a talk is available at the MIT iGEM site.

June 11, 2007

RSI has entered a team in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. Our team, the Bay Area RSI Consortium, consists of 10 students from University of California, Berkeley and Stanford. Students will use a synthetic biology approach to build cells that spontaneously self-assemble into tissue-like structures. Our goals will be to build cells that could potentially treat people with damaged hearts or encircle and destroy tumors. The iGEM competition is sponsored by MIT. More about the iGEM competition can be found at iGEM 2007. To see some of the projects that were completed last year, please see iGEM 2006 Presentations.

April 2, 2007:

Spring 2007 RSI University Fellowship Program begins.  Students from nearby Stanford University will be working on planaria regeneration and using stem cells to engineer heart muscle in vitro.