by Stacey Johnson | Mar 29, 2024
Dr. Michel Sadelain, the “inventor of T cells” and a graduate of the University of Alberta, has won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in life sciences. After completing his medical degree at the University of Paris, Dr. Sadelain earned his PhD in immunology at the...
by Lyla El-Fayomi | Sep 1, 2021
“Regenerative medicine news under the microscope” is a monthly feature highlighting big stories in stem cell research. I will sample the latest and greatest findings in recent press and package them into a single post. August was another packed month in regenerative...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 28, 2020
I am going to take a guess that the teen romance movie Five Feet Apart, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse, introduced many people to cystic fibrosis (CF). Certainly that was the case for my teenage daughter. I learned about CF through television ads, “back...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Apr 4, 2019
As the most common fatal genetic disorder, cystic fibrosis (CF) has been at the forefront of genetic research since the gene responsible for it was discovered 40 years ago. But with more than 300 known disease-causing mutations, or variants of the CF gene, disease...
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