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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A group of cells originated from a transplanted HSC (white) observed in the bone marrow cavity 2 days following the transplant (blue:bone, green: osteoblasts, red: vasculature).... more

The image shows human embryonic stem cells stained for a marker protein (Tra1-60, red dots), whose expression is characteristic of pluripotent cells. Embryonic stem cells can be... 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

HSCI summer intern with Mentor

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

Adult skeletal muscle precursor cells (Wagers Lab)

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