Bruce R. Conklin, MD (Damon Runyon Fellow '90) and colleagues successfully connected human embryonic kidney cells and mouse embryonic stem cells with silicon nanowires, a significant advance toward the futuristic goal of linking cells to each other and to external devices.

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Derek J. Rossi, PhD (Damon Runyon Fellow '03-'06) and coworkers report on new clues as to why blood cancers, like leukemia, occur in people as they age.  Dr. Rossi found that even though blood-forming stem cells rarely divide, they still accumulate DNA damage, which is passed on to the blood and immune system cells they go on to make.  Rossi’s work was published in the June 6 issue of the prestigious journal, Nature.