Lisa Willemse
Lisa is a science communicator with 15+ years' experience in the fields of regenerative medicine, child development and technology. She launched this blog (first as the Stem Cell Network Blog) in 2009, and served as co-editor until April 2015. She is currently the Director, Communications & Public Affairs for the Stem Cell Network, and has contributed to Motherboard, Science Borealis and the Genome Alberta and Canadian Blood Services blogs. Follow her on Twitter and Medium @WillemseLA.
Posts by: Lisa
Right Turn: It glows, its heart beats, and it grew from STAP cells
> By now, most readers will be familiar with this week’s announcement of a remarkable new discovery that mouse cells were made pluripotent using a relatively simple and quick acid bath technique. For those who aren’t, there’s reams of coverage, including some great articles here (Paul Knoepfler’s blog), here (the Guardian) and here (Nature News). […]
Right Turn: Revenge of the Somatic
> If you’ve ever wondered what makes a stem cell hasten its way down the mutational road to cancer, wonder no more. The answer is revenge – a kind of adolescent rebellion against parental (the body’s) and evoloutionary control. At least that’s how hip-hop artist Baba Brinkman imagines it. And whether or not you agree […]
Right Turn: Some views on drug discovery
> Earlier this week, we tweeted some articles published online at Scientific American that provide some perspectives on the complexity and high costs of drug discovery – so far, two have been published, here and here. The tweet elicited a thought-provoking response from one of our researchers, Christopher McCabe: This is one of many possible […]
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