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Contents: Functions of KLF4 in stem cell biology. -- Advances in stem cell therapies. -- Ethical considerations on stem cell research. -- A multiwell platform for studying stiffness-dependent cell biology. -- Allele interaction- single locus genetics meets regulatory biology. -- Optimization of fluorescent tools for cell biology studies in gram-positive bacteria. -- A system biology approach to the analysis of subject-specific responses to lipopolysaccharide in dendritic cells. -- Draft De Novo transcriptome of the Rat Kangaroo Potorous Tridactylus as a tool for cell biology. -- Stem cells in tissue engineering. -- The contribution of dormant origins to genome stability: from cell biology to human genetics. -- System biology and systems genetics- novel innovative approaches to study hot-pathogen interactions during influenza infection. -- The pancreatic B cell: recent insights from human genetics. -- Phenotypic evolutionary models in stem cell biology: replacement, quiescence, and variability. -- An open source based high content screening method for cell biology laboratories investigating cell spreading and adhesion. -- A strategy for full interrogation of prognostic gene expression patterns: exploring the biology of diffuse large B cell Lymphoma. -- Synthesis and characterization of 8-O-carboxymethlpyranine (CM-Pyranine) as a bright, violet-emitting fluid-phase fluorescent maker in cell biology.