Evans Lab Southampton

To say the last few days have been uneventful would be a huge understatement. The referendum result has been done to death, so all I'll say is that we are all hugely disappointed with the outcome and we hope that something positive can be made of the current mess!...

It was great this week to host MatOrtho, a company who make replacement joints, during a workshop on the Engineering Replacement Body Parts module. 

Carolina Avila is a senior development engineer at the company, and she kindly gave up her time to travel to the uni to...

It's been a busy few weeks with the start of the new semester. I currently lead an undergrad module called 'Engineering Replacement Body Parts', and I've been busy giving lectures, sorting out the admin and generall getting the students set up for the course ahead of t...

Regular readers of this blog will know Agnieszka got her paper out before Christmas. For some reason (maybe because we mentioned salamanders in the press release...?) it was picked up quite widely in the press, and we had articles about us (written with varying degrees...

Merry Christmas everybody!

To get you in the festive spirit, what better than some fun science-related Christmas photos. Here are a couple designed by Agnes. They're both made up of lots of colourful pictures of bone marrow cells, imaged using a machine called an 'Imag...

It's been a long time in the pipeline, but I am proud to say that Agnieszka's paper on Wnt and bone stem cells was published yesterday in the journal Stem Cells. Check it out here. 

It is called Transient Canonical Wnt Stimulation Enriches Human Bone Marrow Mononucle...

One of the excellent things about being a scientist is you get to travel, present the work you've been doing, and meet some really amazing other scientists. This week I had the pleasure of being up in Edinburgh for the Bone Research Society meeting, this year extra sp...

Nick recently welcomed a group of twenty-four 15-16 year old students participating on the Smallpeice Biomedical Engineering course at the University of Southampton. The kids were introduced to a number of lab techniques during their visit, including stem cell cul...