Rob Stephenson

📣 Calling stem cell researchers and GMP manufacturing specialists!

The University of Alberta is hiring a #ResearchAssociate, Stem Cell Process Development & GMP Manufacturing to join the Shapiro Stem Cell Diabetes Lab, led by Dr. James Shapiro.

Learn more and apply. ➡️ stemcellnetwork.ca/careers/

A wrap to a really great @keystonesymposia.bsky.social meeting in Kyoto, in what I half-suspect is a spaceship.
It's fitting, because 20 years after the discovery that somatic cells could convert to pluripotent #stemcells, sci fi is definitely becoming science fact.

Early career group leaders We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Nature Biomedical Engineering is hiring again! This time we're hoping to add an editor with machine learning expertise to the team (although we are open to those with other relevant expertise!) Deadline is Oct 20. Please RT! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Nobel Laureate Professor Sir John Gurdon Dies Aged 92 It is with great sadness that the University shares the news of the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon, founder of the Gurdon Institute.

What a monumental contribution. Very sad loss.

Dinner by the lake after a great Human Development meeting in Suzhou, China. Excellent science and insights at a lovely location. Massive thanks to the organizers, incl CSH Asia. Suzhou's neural tube shaped building a fitting bonus. #developmentalbiology #stemcells

The view from my window at 11:58 pm in Suzhou China. Could you please turn the dang building off so I can get some sleep?

a blue sign that says we are hiring ALT: a blue sign that says we are hiring

There is still time to apply to become part of our team at Nature Biomedical Engineering! Please share! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology | SickKids Research Institute The Developmental, Stem Cell & Cancer Biology program has led significant discoveries in developmental genetics, genomics, stem cell and cancer biology.

SickKids Research Institute has just launched a search for Program Head in Developmental, Stem Cell and Cancer Biology. Phenomenal colleagues, amazing science and great food all in the most multicultural city in the world. Join us: www.sickkids.ca/en/research/...

Human embryo research: how to move towards a 28-day limit Nature - The decades-old limit on how long human embryos can be grown in culture is under debate. A new road map outlines how to extend the length of culture responsibly.

The decades-old limit on how long human embryos can be grown in culture is under debate

https://go.nature.com/3GnRpWg

A year of stem cell and developmental biology In recent years, the field of stem cell and developmental biology has seen remarkable breakthroughs that have deepened our understanding of how organisms ...

☕Attending the @isscr.org meeting next week and looking for a recap of interesting work in the field during the past year? Take a look at our collection of #StemCell and development papers published across @natureportfolio.nature.com during the past 12 months!

www.nature.com/collections/...

Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath Hardly anyone is paying attention.

At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.

Trump’s call for ‘gold standard science’ has prompted an outcry: here’s why Thousands have signed an open letter against the US president’s latest order, anxious about political interference in science and more.

Trump signed an order mandating the overhaul of research-integrity policies so that the US government promotes “gold standard science”. But many researchers worry about political interference and are mobilizing opposition.

https://go.nature.com/43EYiKo

Sorry to hear, please take care!

If we stop calling these “grants” and start calling them “contracts,” it’s clearer to people why this is such an abuse of power. This wasn’t a bunch of gifts. This was a bunch of binding contracts between researchers and the US govt for specific agreed upon projects.

Many CD and vinyl shops in Tokyo where you can make some great and rare finds

Molecular basis of positional memory in limb regeneration - Nature A molecular analysis of axolotl limb regeneration has identified a positive genetic circuit that maintains posterior cell identity and can be used to reprogramme anterior cells into posterior cells.

Nature research paper: Molecular basis of positional memory in limb regeneration

https://go.nature.com/44OtQj3

Very cool! Please science, can you make nose plugs for breathing underwater next?
(Of course, still early days for these lenses...)

Improving cellular fitness of human stem cell-derived islets under hypoxia - Nature Communications Hypoxia impairs the efficacy of stem cell-derived islet cell therapy, making it a potential barrier for treatment of type 1 diabetes. Wang et al. identify EDN3 as a key factor that preserves β cell id...

Cell therapy approaches are potentially limited by low oxygen supply post transplantation. Multiomic analysis of #StemCell derived #pancreatic islet-like cells in hypoxic culture identifies EDN3 as a gene that preserves beta cell identity and function.
#scRNAseq

Associate or Senior Editor (environmental carbon cycle), Nature Communications Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor (environmental carbon cycle), Nature Communications Location(s): Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New York, Jersey City, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Milan, Madrid (Hy...

Come work with us! The Earth team at Nature Communications is looking to hire a new editor in the field of environmental carbon cycle, check the ad here and spread the word: springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...

Nils Frahm? Nice 😁

World’s first personalized CRISPR therapy given to baby with genetic disease Nature - Treatment seems to have been effective, but it is not clear whether such bespoke therapies can be widely applied.

A baby boy with a devastating genetic disease is thriving after becoming the first known person to receive a bespoke, CRISPR therapy-for-one, designed to correct his specific disease-causing mutation

https://go.nature.com/4ml3ZW6

Identifying enabling strategies for effective public dialogue in human embryo research Public dialogue is crucial for understanding societal views on human embryo research, and the complexity and sensitivity of this topic require special…

Technology is moving so fast nowadays, and in many cases testing ethical boundaries. A great article on strategies for enabling dialogue with the public.

3D reconstruction of a human Carnegie stage 9 embryo provides a snapshot of early body plan formation Yu and his colleagues present a 3D spatial transcriptomic map of a CS9 human embryo, investigating several key developmental events during this critical stage of body patterning.

Online Now! 3D reconstruction of a human Carnegie stage 9 embryo provides a snapshot of early body plan formation #stemcells

Elon Musk's AI says it was 'instructed by my creators at xAI' to accept the narrative of 'white genocide' in South Africa "This directive caused me to inappropriately insert references to 'white genocide' into unrelated conversations," Grok told Fortune.

Grok (X's AI, commonly being used as a fact checker) was posting about "white genocide" in South Africa last week in response to EVERYTHING. Some suspect a clumsy patch installed. Seems the issue is resolved; perhaps dialled down to dispense more relevant propaganda?
fortune.com/2025/05/15/e...

A screenshot of the termination notice showing "Outstanding Investigator Grants"

A screenshot of the termination notice with "This award is terminated effective the date of this award, due to unsafe antisemitic actions that suggest the institution lacks concern for the safety and wellbeing of Jewish students." highlighted

Yesterday, the NIH R35 “Outstanding Investigator” grant to fund scientists in my lab studying antibiotic resistance was terminated for reasons not related to the content of the science, or any actions taken by me or members of my lab

Patient-Specific In Vivo Gene Editing to Treat a Rare Genetic Disease | NEJM Base editors can correct disease-causing genetic variants. After a neonate had received a diagnosis of severe carbamoyl-phosphate synthetase 1 deficiency, a disease with an estimated 50% mortality ...

A lipid nanoparticle–delivered base-editing therapy was custom designed for an infant with a ureacycle disorder. The affected infant was treated at approximately 7 and 8 months of age. Read the Brief Report: nej.md/42XF03F

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Our colleagues at the Nature Research Cross-Journal Editorial team are also hiring for two new positions! 👇

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Associate or Senior Editor, (Life Sciences) Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team, Nature Portfolio Job Title: Associate or Senior Editor, (Life Sciences) Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team, Nature Portfolio  Location: New York, Jersey City, Shanghai, Beijing, or Nanjing Deadline: May 29th, 2025 ...

The Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team at @natureportfolio.nature.com is hiring! If you have a life science PhD and are curious about science beyond the bench, explore our open editor roles.
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