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Scientist Haifan Lin: From Mao’s China to Yale’s Stem Cell Center

By Guest PostDecember 11, 2017Education, Sciencehaifan lin, mariana wolfner, pirna, research, scientist, stem cell center

Scientist’s journey includes moving research toward potential clinical advances

A significant turning point in the life of Haifan Lin, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology; professor of genetics and of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive sciences; and founding director of Yale’s Stem Cell Center, may have come when he was just 15. Already a high achiever, as he has been ever since, he completed high school three years younger than his classmates. (more…)

Fecal Transplants Let Packrats Eat Poison

By Guest PostOctober 5, 2014Sciencealastair bathgate, antibiotics, birgit poehn, blue prism, denise dearing, digital workforce, diversity, DNA, dominic wyse, end of pipe, endangered species, gene chao, globale erwaermung, globale umweltpolitik, great writers, herbivores, how writing works, langzeitklimastudie, mark bilton, Mexico, mojave desert, packrats, pirna, spuren, toxic plants, umweltverschmutzung, university of utah, wurzelbehandlung

Herbivores Dine on Toxic Plants, Thanks to Gut Microbes

Woodrats lost their ability to eat toxic creosote bushes after antibiotics killed their gut microbes. Woodrats that never ate the plants were able to do so after receiving fecal transplants with microbes from creosote-eaters, University of Utah biologists found. (more…)