by David Kent | May 24, 2012
As a basic researcher in stem cell biology, one of my biggest fears is moving too quickly with cell therapies that involve primitive, still largely mysterious, cell populations. At the World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress meeting this week, I felt...
by Stem Cell Network | Jul 28, 2011
by Peter Raaymakers, Stem Cell Network They’ve become ubiquitous in Web browsing, but those little text-based ads you see everywhere from the biggest newspaper to the smallest blog are called Google AdWords, and they’re big business in just about every...
by Ubaka Ogbogu | Apr 27, 2011
While preparing a consulting report on ethical issues associated with priority setting (a.k.a. resource allocation, rationing) in the stem cell research context, I was surprised to find that there are no published Canadian studies of priority-setting matters...
by David Kent | Apr 19, 2011
A few weeks back, The Guardian reported on a proposal by Japanese doctors and scientists that would see the blood cells of Japanese nuclear clean-up workers banked as a precaution against possible exposure to radiation during the clean-up of the Fukishima power plant....
by Stem Cell Network | Mar 15, 2011
Yesterday the Ministers of Health for the Provinces and Territories of Canada announced an investment of CAD $48M over eight years to establish a national umbilical cord blood bank for Canada. This is a very welcome, and some might say, overdue investment for which...
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