News from the Niche:

• Steve retired and is now 'Emeritus Professor' (July 2026)

• Bailey's work on the cell mechanics of constructing a niche is out in Current Biology, 10.1016/j.cub.2024.07.041

• Kara's work visualizing live, for the fist time the making of an hematopoietic niche, and defining signals for its proper construction is out in eLIFE, 10.7554/eLife.100455.3

• Gabby's manuscript revealing the central role played by niche cytoarchitecture in controlling the behavior of associated stem cells is published in Development, 10.1242/dev.204498

• Gabby's paper, together with a consortium of trainees, on testis scRNAseq is out (Raz et al, 2023)  10.7554/eLife.82201 

• SDFlies contributed to the annotation for the testis snRNAseq dataset in the Fly Cell Atlas work: 10.1126/science.abk2432