Thanks to the Dean’s Matching Fund from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the Office of Research Initiatives and Infrastructure, the imaging capabilities of the Optical Imaging Facility at the Broad CIRM Center (BCC) will be expanded with the addition of a Leica Microsystems Stellaris 8 microscope with FLIM and STED in summer Read More…

In this 360 video tour of USC’s stem cell research center, Dr. Justin Ichida and Dr. Seth Ruffins welcome you to the second floor, which has four facilities for therapeutic screening, flow cytometry, stem cell engineering and optical imaging.

Previously, when Andy McMahon, head of USC Stem Cell, wanted a three-dimensional image of a kidney, he would ship the organ to Australia. Now, he can send the organ down the hall to the university’s new specialized microscope — built by a team of five undergraduates from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering as part Read More…