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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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

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

Single brightly labeled HSC (white) captured within the bone marrow cavity of an irradiated recipient mouse (blue:bone, green: osteoblasts, red: vasculature) one hour after... more

Adult skeletal muscle precursor cells (Wagers Lab)

3D reconstruction showing the spatial distribution of blood vessels (red), osteoblasts (green) and bone (blue) in the bone marrow cavity.

Undergraduate student participating in the HSCI Internship Program

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