by Holly Wobma | May 22, 2013
Nepalese terraces. Photo: strudelt via Flickr . Picture traveling back in time to an era before cell phones (*shudder*). Before radios. Before germ theory. In fact, try taking yourself back to when written language was first being developed around 6000 BC. It’s hard...
by Stacey Johnson | May 17, 2013
. Inspired by the first Right Turn featuring a regenerative medicine infographic, Signals Blog is holding a contest to seek the best original (i.e. not previously published) stem cell or regenerative medicine infographics out there! We’re keeping the subject matter...
by Natasha Davie | May 16, 2013
We live in a time of extraordinary medical advances. So far in 2013, we’ve seen the successful transplantation of a bioengineered kidney into rats, an infant reportedly cured of HIV using anti-retroviral drugs that are currently on the market, and discovered a protein...
by Peter Raaymakers | May 15, 2013
In last week’s Right Turn, we talked about how stem cells are responsible for the colours and patterns of bird feathers—and birds, as the graphic on the right demonstrates, are basically just tiny dinosaurs. Given that there is much promise in stem cell research (and...
by Lisa Willemse | May 10, 2013
Pea Hen Feather. Credit: Bill Gracey The arrival of summer’s songbirds to much of Canada over the past month makes this a fitting time to talk about feathers. Coincidentally, a paper was released in Science in late April that revealed how stem cells function to...
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