by Peter Raaymakers | Aug 29, 2014
> Earlier this summer, building toy makers Lego released the Research Institute: A new set that featured female minifigures in science professions, including a paleontologist, astronomer and chemist. The set may have been a response to a young girl’s plea for...
by David Kent | Aug 27, 2014
This post originally appeared on The Black Hole blog and is reprinted with permission from the author and University Affairs. I hate to admit this, but I find an incredible number of scientific papers really boring. It seems that more and more, research papers are...
by Stacey Johnson | Aug 22, 2014
. You have to be living under a rock – or perhaps spending every minute of your time culturing your cells – to be unaware of the ALS #Icebucketchallenge. Since it began on July 29 on social media, the American ALS Association has raised millions (nearly $42 million at...
by Sara M. Nolte | Aug 19, 2014
> In previous posts, I have alluded to the fact that studying cancer in a dish (in vitro) is not optimal (here and here). Today, I give you the next essential tool in a cancer stem cell (CSC) researcher’s toolbox: xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation is an...
by Mark Curtis | Aug 18, 2014
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of July. The cancer stem cell companies were back in the news last month. OncoMed initiated its ALPINE clinical trial of Tarextumab for pancreatic cancer, while Stemline Therapeutics announced an investigational...
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