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.

January 29, 2007

RSI Stem Cell Biology High School Internship Program launched.  Five students from local area from local area  high schools have been selected to participate. 

January 6, 2007:

RSI releases a guide to Embryonic Stem Cell Culture and Maintenance. You can download it here.