Mini-hearts to study the heart! ♥️

Stem cell-derived cardiac organoids can recapitulate aspects of heart development. Sean Escopete in our lab reviews cardiac organoids in a new paper in Trends in Molecular Medicine. 📄

Read for free below:
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It’s a great night to send more science to space! 🚀

We are proud to launch our 6th stem cell science payload from Cedars-Sinai to the International Space Station. Stay tuned for the first production of human organoids in space!

Congrats to all involved. Onwards and upwards! ✨

The other, other best part of meetings is sharing the science and fun with the next generation!

Great representation from Sharma lab at #BCVS25. Thanks Maedeh, Jemima, and Sean for excellent posters on all things iPSCs, organoids, organ chips, and cardiotoxicity! 🫀

Catching up with @seanmwu.bsky.social lab alumni including @hanzhumd.bsky.social and Soah Lee at #BCVS2025!

Reuniting with old friends is the best part of scientific meetings, other than the science of course! 🔬

Grabbing dim sum at #ISSCR2025 with grad school friends from Joe Wu and @seanmwu.bsky.social labs! 🥟

Now they have labs in China, South Korea, US, and Netherlands. Making global friendships is one of the best things about science! 🌍

@mingxiagu.bsky.social

Welcome to #ISSCR2025 in Hong Kong!

Excited to represent @stemcellpodcast.com and @cedars-sinai.bsky.social at the biggest stem cell research meeting of the year. Stop by and say hey!

No better way to kick off the new space center at Cedars-Sinai than with a keynote from NASA astronaut Kate Rubins , one of the few biomedical scientist-astronauts!

Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s a heart-shaped, stem cell-derived cardiac organoid from Sean Escopete in our lab.

Our mini-hearts beat for you! ❤️🫀

Moving up a notch! Honored to become an Associate Professor at Cedars-Sinai.

Huge thanks to my incredible lab team for their amazing work. Also grateful to the leadership here, especially Clive Svendsen, for believing in me. Onwards! 🚀

Thanks to @ucirvine.bsky.social Stem Cell for the opportunity to present our work on stem cell modeling, on Earth and in space!

Fantastic stem cell research program in Orange County. 🍊 Great to chat with many folks about organoid biology!

Access to space is worldwide. 🌏

Awesome gift from one of our lab members who just got back from India! 🚀 🇮🇳

Hey Bluesky 🦋! I am a stem cell biologist at Cedars-Sinai. My lab uses stem cell-derived heart tissues for studying drug toxicity and modeling heart defects. We also send experiments to space to study how microgravity impacts cell biology.

Let’s connect!

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Thanks to @stemcellengineer.bsky.social for visiting us at Cedars-Sinai last week! She’s doing amazing work developing advanced kidney-on-chip systems and much more.

Growing stem cells in space? In off-the-shelf labware? In 3D? We did that and more! 🚀🧫

Check out our paper, “Surface tension enables iPSC culture in commercially available hardware during spaceflight” in NPJ Microgravity!

Read free: www.nature.com/articles/s41...