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Right Turn: Cord Blood Awareness Month
. July is Cord Blood Awareness Month, an internationally recognized campaign that helps mothers, families, physicians, and researchers learn more about cord blood and cord blood banking. Cord blood is the blood left over in the umbilical cord immediately following the birth of a newborn baby and is a rich source of hematopoietic stem cells. […]
Narrowing in on a career: a graduate student contemplates the business side of regenerative medicine
By S. Amanda Ali As a fifth year PhD student in the Institute of Medical Science at the University of Toronto, thoughts of what-to-do-next are always lurking in the back of my mind. Having ruled out conventional routes for graduate students in biomedical science – postdoctoral fellowships, medical school, other professional schools – I’ve considered […]
Till & McCulloch Meetings 2012: Lessons to learn from leukemic stem cells
by Alexey Bersenev The first plenary session of the Till & McCulloch Meetings was dedicated to cancer stem cells. John Dick opened the session by asking a question: “Stem cells in cancer: do they matter?” He is always ahead of time, very precise and innovative and I think cancer stem cell researchers can learn […]
Stem cell pioneer inducted into Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
by Michael Rudnicki, Scientific Director of the Stem Cell Network Today it was announced that Ron Worton is an inductee into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame that is dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments of medical heroes. As well as an accomplished and renowned scientist for his groundbreaking and seminal discoveries in genetic diseases such as Duchenne Muscular […]