Cuando era un jovenzuelo y entré a trabajar en El País de la Tentaciones allá por los noventa, de vez en cuando hacía cosas para Julia en El País Semanal. Siempre me pareció de las personas más amables y receptivas de la redacción. Pena 🙁 elpais.com/cultura/2026...

🚀 New paper out from the Gentleman & Sancho Labs! What happens when developmental biology meets bioengineering? We show how stiffness shapes the generation and maturation of stem cell derived beta cells. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @diabetesuk.bsky.social

Tomorrow is the day… Swim22 starts… yay!!! 🎉 🏊‍♀️ 🔬 🧫 We are back in the pool for @diabetesuk.bsky.social to support people living with diabetes and research towards better treatments and a cure, please donate! swim22.diabetes.org.uk/teams/stem-c...

Wow! Cool paper! Cyborg pancreatic islet organoids | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Congratulations to Rashmi and Karolina and also to the technology development studio of the MPI-CBG without whom the screen would not have been possible. If you are interested in high-content screening in organoid models, you may want to take a look.

Online Now! High-content screening of organoids reveals the mechanisms of human pancreas acinar specification #stemcells

Massive congrats to Dr Gehlen who absolutely nailed her viva and is already shining like the star she is ⭐ She is even wearing her PhD gift, a dryrobe that will keep her warm after swiming in freezing waters on her next adventure 🏊‍♀️❄️ #proud_sanchoLab🥹 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Sancho Lab in full festive mode at the CGTRM Christmas department lunch... bright energy as the year closes, fantastic time with great food and good laughs all around!!! 🎄✨😄

Fantastic paper! Huge congrats 👏🥂

Fantastic Inaugural Lectures by Katie Doores and Patricia Barral @barrallab.bsky.social . It is a real privilege to have colleagues like them at @kingslsm.bsky.social .

Human pancreatic organoids derived from pluripotent stem cells recapitulate pancreatic organogenesis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685661v1

Generation of human iPSC-derived pancreatic organoids to study pancreas development and disease https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.24.620102v1

www.linkedin.com/posts/paola-... Looking for a PhD? We are offering a project for the 2026 intake at the Crick!

Looking for a PhD for 2026? We have 2 projects in collaboration with Clare Bennett (UCL) looking at macrophage metabolism in breast cancer. Check them out! @cruk-cityoflondon.bsky.social www.colcc.ac.uk/2026-phd-pro... crukradnet.colcc.ac.uk/phd-students...

✨A wonderful day of connection, insight, and inspiration at the BMBS PI Retreat. Grateful to all who shared their ideas and to Prof Rachel Tribe for closing the event with such energy and vision ✨ @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Had an amazing time at The CGT Circle Leiden ✨ Sharing my career journey with this incredible group was truly rewarding. Huge thanks to the organisers and to Sophia Kolbe for the invite 🙌 #NecstGen @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @diabetesuk.bsky.social @ukri.org

We did it! 🌙✨ The Shine Night Walk was amazing and every step was powered by your support. Huge thanks to all who donated 🙏💙 What a night! 🎉👟 #ShineWalk @cancerresearchuk.org @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

The Sancho Lab is also joining forces in this beautiful initiative 🌟👟. Together, we are walking to support vital research 💖🎗️. Every donation, big or small, makes a difference 🙏✨. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/team/shiny-i... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @cancerresearchuk.org

Walking through the night for Cancer Research UK 🌙✨ Every step helps beat cancer 💜 Please support with a donation if you can 🙏💫 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/rocios-...

Smiling faces after a delicious ice cream feast at Borough Market 🍦 wishing Vicky the very best with her MRes at Imperial, you will do amazing 🎉✨

📣 Job alert! We are seeking motivated researchers to apply for a postdoctoral research associate position in #Robotics and #ArtificialIntelligence, funded by our new EPSRC project, Circular Robot 5.0! More information: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/118605-...

We are doing it again!! 🚶‍♀️🚶‍♂️🚶🧪🧫🔬 For the Second Year My Lab is participating to the One_Walk_London 🎡 to raise money for life-changing research & make a difference to T1D #diabetes ⤵️ support.breakthrought1d.org.uk/fundraisers/... Please help us raise funds for @breakthrought1duk.bsky.social

We have a special episode out for you now, recorded live at #ISSCR2025! Drs. Hongkui Deng and Candice Liew share the story behind their groundbreaking study transplanting CiPSC-derived islets into a patient with #Type1Diabetes. Listen now: bit.ly/4n9c54K

Jenny Gehlen, final-year PhD student in the Sancho Lab, rocked her poster presentation at #ISSCR2025 in Hong Kong! Brilliant work, Jenny!✨🧫🧬🔬 @isscr.org @diabetesuk.bsky.social @ukri.org @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

Live from #ISSCR2025! Prof Hongkui Deng reviewed chemical reprogramming for iPSCs, boosting efficiency & safety. Promising diabetes data! Strong talks on mechanisms & translation. More discussions ahead! @isscribe.bsky.social @diabetesuk.bsky.social @ukri.org @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

🤩 Amazing start of the ISSCR experience! Great public symposium at the Hong Kong Science & Technology Park! 🧬🔬🧫👏🧑‍🔬 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @ukri.org @diabetesuk.bsky.social @isscr.org

🤩 Great talk by Jenny Gehlen at the BMBS PhD Symposium on how pancreatic stiffness influences beta cell differentiation. #ProudPI 🥹. Thanks to the organising team for such an amazing day! 🎉👩‍🔬🧫🔬👨‍🔬 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @diabetesuk.bsky.social @lido-dtp.bsky.social @lscn.bsky.social

Absolutely thrilled to be heading to #ISSCR2025 in Hong Kong this June! Looking forward to connecting with colleagues, who else is going? Let me know if you would like to catch up 🧫🔬👩‍💻

BBB-crossing lipid nanoparticles to deliver mRNA to neurons and astrocytes, published at @naturematerials.bsky.social

Applications are now open for 20 interdisciplinary jobs in AI at King’s College London: King’s AI+ Academic Fellowships, advancing AI across *all* disciplines (yes, inc. Arts & Hums — come and work with me!). www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki... @kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social

🔥New Night Science paper!! Discovery happens when your initial plans fall apart but it requires you to have a particular mindset: it's not extraverted, orderly, neurotic or agreeable that's the most important – discovery requires an OPENNESS to new ideas and unexpected insights.

Amazing dumpling feast as we said goodbye to Cristina at the Sancho Lab! 🥹 Such a lovely afternoon celebrating her next chapter. The Sancho Lab will not be the same without her. Off she goes to a brilliant postdoc @aidamartinezs.bsky.social , and we know she will shine! ✨🧬🧪

A computational framework links transcriptomic analyses with mechanical signatures to study the interplay between cell mechanical forces and gene expression. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Are you a clinician looking for a fully-funded postdoctoral research opportunity? 🩺 Take a look at our postdoctoral career development fellowships for clinicians, and see how you can join our vibrant community of clinician scientists. Apply by 30 April ⤵️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...

We are also featuring Fiona Watt, former Editor-in-Chief of @jcellsci.bsky.social and current Director of the @embo.org, as an extraordinary biologist this week. #100biologists

Great time at the Diabetes UK Professional Conference in Glasgow🎉. Many thanks to the Steve Morgan Foundation, Breakthrough T1D, and Diabetes UK for inviting us. Enjoyed meeting brilliant people and building strong connections. #DUKPC #DiabetesResearch

🦠🔬 We are very excited to organize an EMBO workshop on Immunity in Barrier Tissues with Carolyn King! @immunologyking.bsky.social 📍 Where: Basel, Switzerland 📅 When: 26th–29th August 2025 📝 Registration deadline: 30th May 2025 Check out the program and details 🔗 #EMBOBarrierTissues @embo.org

An imaging system with an ultra-wide field of view allows scientists to track millions of cells at once in large 3D tissues and embryos. https://buff.ly/3Q83gZD

Calling all students. The registration for the European Summer School on Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine is now open.

⏳Abstract submission for #EASD2025 is OPEN! Use this chance to present your research and contribute to the future of #diabetes #care and #innovation.🔬 📅 Deadline: 1 April 2025, 18:00 CEST 📍 Submit via MyEASD to showcase your research! More info 👉 www.easd.org/annual-meeti...

Hello everyone on Bluesky! 🧪 We are EMBO, the organization of more than 2,100 leading researchers that promotes excellence in #lifesciences in Europe and beyond. Read more: www.embo.org/about-embo/m...

🥂 Huge congratulations to @cristinagarrone.bsky.social for smashing her PhD viva! Such an amazing achievement, we are all soooooo proud of you! 🎉👏🤩🥹👩‍🎓💪

What is cancer and why is it so difficult to treat? Crick group leader Gerard Evan explains why we get cancer and how he and other scientists are working to unravel this complex disease. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8gP...

Amazing how deep space images look just like microscopic structures...galaxies that mimic neurons, nebulae that resemble cells. The universe really repeats itself at every scale 🤯

Job Alert! We are recruiting a postdoc for organoid technology at RIKEN BDR, Japan. This is a valuable opportunity to work in collaboration with multiple labs, aiming for an advanced integration of developmental biology and engineering. Please contact! www.riken.jp/en/careers/r...

A long-awaited nonopioid pain drug has won approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat moderate to severe short-term pain.

"One email at a time, one informational interview after another, I became comfortable, confident, and strategic in building my network of mentors." One mentor isn’t enough, wrote Erika Moore in this 2021 #ScienceWorkingLife essay. https://scim.ag/3DWR4YV #NationalMentoringMonth

London Stem Cell Network @lscn.bsky.social is on Bsky! Hello! Please follow☝🏻 if interested in stem cells

A perfect start in the new year! 🌱 Regenerating tissues are just an amazing spatio temporal controlled process! Our new manuscript explores how cell heterogeneity and bistability orchestrate intestinal regeneration. 🧵 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

The research community has flocked to the social-media platform Bluesky. Tell us about your experience https://go.nature.com/42fihQG