In the 1960's, John Gardner wrote two of his most influential books, "Excellence" and "Self-Renewal." Each has had a large impact across a wide array of fields, proving insightful to business ...

While at Stanford, I resolved to read everything that John had written. No book of his affected me more than Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society. Written in 1963, it still held ...

However, Aziz et al. now report that the deletion of two transcription factors linked to monocyte differentiation could confer limitless self-renewal capacity to mature differentiated macrophages.

Our group is working to identify the controls that maintain satellite cell numbers, which requires elucidation of the signals and molecules that promote self-renewal of satellite cells. We use ...