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Welcome everyone to Episode 85 of The Stem Cell Podcast.  As always go to stemcellpodcast.com for all of our episodes and to sign up for the newsletter.

The Science Round Up

This week’s round-up is sponsored by Cell Therapy News (CTN), the original Connexon newsletter. Launched in 2002, Cell Therapy News has been covering the world of stem cell therapy, regenerative medicine and gene therapy for 15 years. Go to CellTherapyNews.com to sign up for free to save time and keep current on the latest research and news.

We begin with the world-famous Science Round Up and discuss the latest science/stem cell news including:

• Scientists plan to march.
• CRISPR in cows.
• Using an artist’s amnesia to investigate memory.
• Human-Pig chimera.
• Brain cancer stem cells avoid immune system.
• Generating thyroid cells from stem cells.
• Generating Leydig-like cells via direct reprogramming.

The interview with Dr. Christopher Park

Today’s interview segment is brought to you by STEMCELL Technologies.  Culture your expertise in hematopoiesis with their new webinars, tech tips and expert interviews.  Listeners may be interested in the recent webinar with Dr. Suzan Imren where she discusses her work regarding the roles of notch and small molecule UM171 on the in vitro expansion of cord blood HSCs in vitro. Start exploring now at stemcell.com/HemaHub

For the interview portion of the show, sponsored by STEMCELL Technologies, we bring on Dr. Christopher Park, Associate Professor and Director of Pathology Education and Translational Research at the NYU Langone Medical center. His lab is currently looking at new ways to combat blood cancers like Leukemia by attacking and destroying the blood stem cells.  In this episode, Dr. Park discusses his lab’s work and the details of their most recent publication in Science Translational Medicine.  After this we close the show with a signature SCP rant. [Read more…]