Liangwen Zhong

Honoring immigrants in research: The Vilcek Prizes in Biomedical Science Diverse voices overcome scientific challenges

Check out this article in @science.org featuring our Vilcek Prizewinners: @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social, @takashiakeralab.bsky.social, @amanglik.bsky.social, & @bernasozen.bsky.social! These immigrant scientists are shaping the future of medicine. Read more about their discoveries: vilcek.co/3OxUKFG

In honor of International Day of Women & Girls in Science, we celebrate @bernasozen.bsky.social, our 2026 Vilcek Prizewinner for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science! Sozen has pioneered stem cell-based models that make the earliest stages of human development accessible. vilcek.co/4rgJhZu

We’re back with the Metabolism in Development & Physiology online seminar series 🎉

Thu 15 Jan 2025, 16:00 CET

Speakers:
Heidi Lempradl (Professor, VAI)

Diego Sainz de la Maza (PostDoc, UCL)

We’re excited for our very first “Metabolism in Development & Physiology” seminar next week!
🗓 13 Nov 2025, 16:00 CET
🎙 Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg)
🎙 Christopher Bell (Uni of Oxford)
Register here to join the the talks: forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...

We are thrilled to announce the inaugural Metabolism in Development & Physiology virtual seminar, a new series connecting researchers across all stages & disciplines in metabolism!

🗓 13 Nov 2025, 16:00 CET
🎙 Alexander Aulehla (EMBL Heidelberg), &
🎙 Christopher Bell (Uni of Oxford)

See you there!

🚨Excited to kick off our online seminar series on Metabolism in Development and Physiology!

Please help us grow a collaborative and supportive community by joining (<1min): forms.gle/Y8QzucogKKrZ...
#Metabolism #Development #StemCells

Please RT! 🙏

Very happy to share the work of Huanhuan Li et al. While not a natural embryo, you might not have known that if I hadn’t told you. (1/3)

Transgene-free generation of mouse post-gastrulation whole embryo models solely from naive ESCs and iPSCs Hanna and colleagues show that signaling pathway modulation amplifies the inherent flexibility of genetically unmodified mouse naive PSCs to adopt extra-embryonic cell fate potential. This endows them with the competence to generate up to E8.5–E8.75 transgene-free stem cell-derived embryo models (TF-SEMs) that complete gastrulation and initiate organogenesis within complex extra-embryonic compartments ex utero.

Online Now! Transgene-free generation of mouse post-gastrulation whole embryo models solely from naive ESCs and iPSCs #stemcells

Live imaging endogenous transcription factor dynamics reveals mechanisms of epiblast and primitive endoderm fate segregation Kim-Yip, Denberg, et al. visualize epiblast and primitive endoderm specification by live imaging key transcription factors. They reveal systematic and stochastic features by identifying a primary epib...

Moral of the story: the mouse embryo uses some preplanning as well as some randomness to conduct this important fate decision. Huge thank you to everyone involved + to @currentbiology.bsky.social for the awesome publishing experience! www.cell.com/current-biol...

Amazing work!! Huge Congrats!

🐌💫 Snail embryos never looked so fabulous!
Tubulin (white), phospho-histone H3 (pink), and F-Actin (cyan) light up this early stage like a cytoskeletal disco ball.
Image from Clemens Cabernard & Adam von Barnau Sythoff 🪩🧬 #FluorescenceFriday

Not in Hong Kong at #ISSCR2025 to grab a poster? You can find the online version in this 'Development at a Glance' article: journals.biologists.com/dev/article/...

This article is part of our 'Focus on stem cells' collection, put together to complement #ISSCR2025: