Philip Schwartz, PhD, supervisor and senior scientist and director of the National Human Neural Stem Cell Resource at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County Research Institute, talks to Contributing Editor Tanuja Koppal, PhD, about the subtle particulars and expertise needed to design and maintain a laboratory dedicated to culturing stem cells.

University to host neuroscience research symposium, poster session.

Whether fragments are long (>1,000bp) or short as in conventional NGS work (<500bp), NGS library preparations benefit from quantitative and qualitative analysis

Studying these cells could lead to new treatments for diseases ranging from gastrointestinal disease to diabetes.

Managing laboratory animal allergens

The finding represents a scientific feat as well as progress toward an HIV vaccine.

Chemists develop new way to kill cancer cells resistant to the chemotherapy drug cisplatin.

McGill online game expands to connect global scientific community with citizen scientists.

A brain region activated when people are asked to perform mathematical calculations in an experimental setting is similarly activated when they use numbers — or even imprecise quantitative terms, such as “more than”— in everyday conversation, according to a study by Stanford University School of Medicine scientists.