by Krystal Jacques | Apr 3, 2025
The pancreas is an organ that is critical for the digestion of our food and for releasing hormones into the bloodstream, which helps regulate blood sugar levels. The three main types of cells responsible for making these functions happen are: endocrine cells, acinar...
by Roshan Yoganathan | Mar 7, 2014
. I’m not sure many of you are die-hard biomaterial fans like me, but there was a shot heard around the biomaterial world when Canada’s very own Professor Michael Sefton, at the University of Toronto, proposed creating a heart in a box. He made the claim nearly ten...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 4, 2013
. With over 1,000 TED Talks, it’s inevitable that more than one good regenerative medicine talk will appear in Right Turn. The talk below, by Dr. Robert Langer of MIT, takes some commitment at nearly 18 minutes in running time, but if you’re a fan of biomaterials (or...
by Patrick Blit | Aug 6, 2013
The promise and potential of stem cell therapy has garnered much attention from the media over the years. Countless stories have been reported of groundbreaking stem cell research and that these discoveries are likely to change the way we conduct health care....
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Jun 26, 2012
Hiromitsu Nakauchi has a vision for regenerative medicine. In this vision, he sees a renewable source of human organs for transplantation that are grown within the bodies of farm animals. Here’s how it works: pluripotent stem cells would be injected into an early...
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