Paper: opening our stem cell collection to the world
In the Ooi lab we have over the years grown our induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) portfolio. In 2018 we...
Paper: Liraglutide prevents metabolic side-effects and improves recognition and working memory during antipsychotic treatment in rats.
Some progress in my neuropharmacology portfolio of novel treatment options: we have just published our assessment of Liraglutide to combat...
Protocols: Maintaining happy iPSC colonies
Episode 1: Let’s start at the beginning, maintaining your iPSC colonies Keeping healthy iPSC colonies, better for clean cultures than...
Protocols: New Tips & Tricks miniseries on maintaining and differentiating iPSCs
Growing stem cells and differentiating them into neuronal cells is difficult work. This miniseries has the tips and tricks I...
Paper: Unmasking the true identity in neuron differentiation
Just weeks after our review on problems with current differentiation protocols, a method for iPSC-derived cholinergic neurons got published in...
Paper: Common pitfalls of stem cell differentiation: a guide to improving protocols for neurodegenerative disease models and research
Differentiating stem cells into neurons is gaining more and more traction, but is still a very challenging task. We have...
Paper: mGluR2/3 agonist LY379268 rescues NMDA and GABAA receptor level deficits induced in a two-hit mouse model of schizophrenia
We published our preclinical antipsychotic study with my PhD supersivors and fellow PhD students. We show with this work, that the...