Cal Poly Pomona faculty and students have joined together to present "Exploring Stem Cells Through Dance". The dance presents basic information about the different types of stem cells and their differentiation into mature cell types. This performance is a modern dance interpretation of the Stem Cell Video Module developed as part of the Cal Poly Pomona/CSULA CIRM Stem Cell Bridges Training Grant. Modern dance is an abstract art form that refers to and reflects ideas, rather than literally re-enacting events. Watch the video |
The research focuses on Huntington’s disease, a degenerative disorder that usually strikes people in their late 30s and early 40s. It causes a progressive deterioration in mental abilities and uncontrollable muscle movements that get worse as time goes by. Individuals in the late stages of the disease are completely unable to care for themselves. For years, the scientific and medical communities have assumed that the debilitating movements associated with the disease were the result of neurons degenerating, primarily in the brain. Read more |
Faculty in the Deparment of Biological Sciences are active in original research and involve their graduate and undergraduate students in their research projects.
This section contains the latests publications by the department's faculty and research students along with descriptions of their relevance. Read more |
