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Wolf Reik co-authors paper reporting a single cell method for parallel sequencing of the transcriptome and methylome

25 April 2016

Parallel single-cell sequencing links transcriptional and epigenetic heterogeneity Wolf Reik et al report scM&T-seq, a method for parallel single-cell genome-wide methylome and transcriptome sequencing that allows for the discovery of associations between transcriptional and epigenetic variation. Profiling of 61 mouse...

Mick Elliot's paper on oxidative stress and the evolutionary origins of preeclampsia

25 April 2016

Risk of preeclampsia in humans results from a failure of apes to evolve an epitheliochorial placenta

Kathy Niakan, former CTR NGF, named on Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list

21 April 2016

Kathy has begun to apply the technique for editing the genome that Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna developed, called CRISPR, to study the effects of genes in human development. Well done Kathy!

Funding award for CTR Graduate Student Iva Filipovic

18 April 2016

Iva Filipovic was awarded funding for the 5th flowcytometryUK meeting taking place in Leeds in July 2016. The funding covers both registration and accommodation and this funding was limited to a maximum of three applicants from UK. Dr Leonore Herzenberg, who developed the Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS)...

Jorge Lopez-Tello, from the Sferruzzi-Perri lab, recently won an Imanova Best Speaker Prize!

18 April 2016

Jorge Lopez-Tello, from the Sferruzzi-Perri lab, recently won an Imanova Best Speaker Prize at the PDN Symposium in April 2016. It was a very closely-run competition with the prize awarded for best presentation. Well done Jorge!

Maternal obesity and diabetes in pregnancy result in early overgrowth of the baby in the womb.

14 April 2016

"Given the risk of complications for both mother and child from gestational diabetes, our findings suggest that screening women earlier on in pregnancy may help improve the short and long term outcomes for these women" Dr Ulla Sovio, Cambridge University

Loke CTR member Ulla Sovio talks at SMFM16 and publishes paper in Placenta

21 March 2016

Loke CTR member Ulla Sovio talks and presents a poster at SMFM16 and publishes a paper in Placenta: The relationship between human placental morphometry and ultrasonic measurements of utero-placental blood fl ow and fetal growth. Salavati N 1 , Sovio U 2 , Mayo RP 3 , Charnock-Jones DS 4 , Smith GC 5

Loke CTR member Courtney Hanna sweeps the board - well done Courtney!

21 March 2016

Courtney won a YW Loke New Investigator Travel Award; she also gave presentations in France and Australia and published a paper earlier on this year: Hanna CW, Penaherrera MS, Saadeh H, Andrews S, McFadden DE, Kelsey G, Robinson WP. Pervasive polymorphic imprinted methylation in the human placenta . Well done Courtney!

Loke CTR member Martin Johnson to give 2016 Sir Robert Edwards lecture

21 March 2016

Loke CTR member Martin Johnson will give the Sir Robert Edwards lecture in Jaipur India in July 2016 at the invitation of the Association of Clinical Embryologists (ACE) of India

What Is Trophoblast?

21 March 2016

Last month saw the publication of What Is Trophoblast? A Combination of Criteria Define Human First-Trimester Trophoblast.

Wolf Reik co-authors paper reporting a single cell method for parallel sequencing of the transcriptome and methylome

Mick Elliot's paper on oxidative stress and the evolutionary origins of preeclampsia

Kathy Niakan, former CTR NGF, named on Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People list

Funding award for CTR Graduate Student Iva Filipovic

Jorge Lopez-Tello, from the Sferruzzi-Perri lab, recently won an Imanova Best Speaker Prize!

Maternal obesity and diabetes in pregnancy result in early overgrowth of the baby in the womb.

Loke CTR member Ulla Sovio talks at SMFM16 and publishes paper in Placenta

Loke CTR member Courtney Hanna sweeps the board - well done Courtney!

Loke CTR member Martin Johnson to give 2016 Sir Robert Edwards lecture

What Is Trophoblast?

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