To help patients in need of transplants, artificial kidneys would have to function like their natural counterparts, but they wouldn’t necessarily have to look like them. With a new $1 million prize from the Kidney Innovation Accelerator, or KidneyX, a team of USC Stem Cell scientists led by Nils Lindström in collaboration with Leonardo Morsut Read More…

How do complex biological structures—an eye, a hand, a brain—emerge from a single fertilized egg? This is the fundamental question of developmental biology, and a mystery still being grappled with by scientists who hope to one day apply the same principles to heal damaged tissues or regrow ailing organs. Now, in a study published May 31 Read More…

The Morsut Lab is please to welcome new research lab technician Victoria Fitts.

Leonardo Morsut will be attending the EDEV2017 conference focusing on Engineering Multicellular Self-Organization in Lausanne, Switzerland from November 13–14.

Leonardo Morsut will be speaking at UC Santa Barbara as part of their Bioengineering Faculty Research Seminar Series. His presentation will be entitled “Synthetic biology approaches for multicellular systems: from engineered cell therapy to synthetic tissue development.”

Alexander (Alex) March gave a presentation entitled “Activation of synthetic cell receptors using printed ligand patterns: building towards a tissue with defined cellular architecture” at the annual departmental retreat on 10/20–10/21.

The Morsut Lab is please to welcome two new PhD students to the lab: Libere Ndacayisaba and Kuo-Chang (Ted) Tseng.

Leonardo Morust is featured in the “Video of the Week” on USC Employee Gateway. Check out the video here:

Leonardo Morsut will speak at the 2017 Society of Developmental Biology meeting in Minneapolis on Friday, July 14 at 9:15 a.m. His talk is titled “Programming cells to design developmental trajectories with synthetic biology molecular tools,” and will be featured during the session “Pattern Formation and Morphogenesis.”