This news item is about: With discussions that ranged from battling mastitis to regenerating muscles, experts in stem cell science gathered at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s sunlit atrium to exchange knowledge and ideas at the 2018 Stem Cell Program Retreat. Professor of Pathology Alexander Nikitin, leader of the Cornell Stem Cell Program and director of the Cornell Training Program in Stem Cell Research, and Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics Tudorita Tumbar, Chair of the Stem Cell Seminars and Meetings Committee, organized the program. “With over one hundred participants, this was by far the largest attendance we’ve had at the retreat,” says Nikitin. “As always, the talks were of high quality and represented a broad range of contemporary topics in basic and translational research, biomedical engineering and regenerative medicine.”