by Erin Sugar | Oct 16, 2015
. Walking through the doors of MaRS Discovery District’s Phase II building in Toronto, Canada brings visitors face to face with Super Cells: The Power of Stem Cells, a free, award-winning exhibition with the purpose of educating children and teens, ages 4-14, about...
by Nicole Kuchinsky | Oct 15, 2015
Last week, a Nature News article reported that the Harvard geneticist George Church had modified over 60 genes in pig embryos using CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing. I’m sure you’re expecting my scientific perspective on the significance of this news in the context of the...
by Erin Sugar | Oct 9, 2015
. When he’s not roaming hospital corridors, Dr. Adnan Khera, an anesthesiology resident at Boston’s Tufts Medical Center, can be found dancing on the city streets two nights a week. But he’s not dancing for fame, he’s earning money for his charity “Doctor Be...
by James Smith | Oct 6, 2015
. With contributions from blogger David Brindley September 2015 has been an historic month for regenerative medicine. For the first time ever in the Western world, a prescription has been issued for a gene therapy, Glybera. At the ESGCT and FSGT Collaborative...
by Hamideh Emrani | Oct 2, 2015
. So many of today’s biomedical advances are only possible because of a step forward in basic science research that happened many years ago. Basic science, be it biology, math or physics, always tries to advance our knowledge of the universe around us. It doesn’t...
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