The Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB) is the first cross-school department located in both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School. The Department's focus is the development, maintenance and repair of vertebrate tissues. Emphasis is placed on using these aspects of biology to inform the understanding of human diseases.

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Interns in the HSCI summer research program

Corticospinal projection neurons (CSMN) in the cortex, marked with a green retrograde label and red immunocytochemical detection of a CSMN-specific transcription factor. more

Undergraduate student participating in the HSCI Internship Program

During kidney development, new nephrons are induced by an interaction between the ureteric epithelium and the metanephric mesenchyme. At the tip of the ureteric bud epithelium the... more

Undergraduate student participating in the HSCI Internship Program

Maturing neurons labeled in green expressing prion protein (red). Click... more

A maturing neuron (in green) integrating into the olfactory bulb architecture. more

A Wrights Giemsa stained human embryonic stem cell (hESC) colony (H9) on murine embryonic fibroblast (MEF) feeder cells at high magnification. The colony contains roughly 50-70... more

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