Trista North

Cells that are the body's first defense against infection may play role in developing embryo 2013 HSCI Internship Program participant Isaura Frost, who worked on this project, with her mentor postdoctoral fellow Virginie Esain, PhD, at the HSCI intern...

Harvard stem cell scientists studying the effect of nitric oxide on liver growth and regeneration appear to have serendipitously discovered a markedly improved treatment for liver damage caused by acetaminophen toxicity—the cause of half the U.S. hospital...

Harvard stem cell scientists have a new theory for how stem cells decide whether to become liver or pancreatic cells during development. A cell’s fate, the researchers found, is determined by the nearby presence of prostaglandin E 2, a messenger molecule...