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Stacey Johnson is the editor of Signals and a contributor. For 25 years, Stacey has been providing strategic communications counsel to government, corporate, technology and health organizations. She began her career at the CTV Television Network and then moved to Hill & Knowlton Canada where she advised clients in a variety of industries and sectors. Stacey is the Vice President, Communications and Marketing for CCRM, a leader in developing and commercializing regenerative medicine-based technologies and cell and gene therapies. She has a Master's degree in Public Relations. You can follow her on Twitter @msstaceyerin.

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Right Turn: Stem cells at the movies

Author: Stacey Johnson, 12/27/13

  If you are fortunate enough to have time off over the holiday season, I’ll wager that you may spend some of that time in front of the television. Call me a Grinch, but Christmas TV programming is something that I generally avoid. If, like me, you plan on skipping “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” “Christmas […]

Right Turn: The ultimate Christmas present

Author: Stacey Johnson, 12/20/13

. With five days left to go until Christmas, are you feeling stressed about that hard-to-buy-for person on your Christmas list? Don’t despair. I have scoured the Internet on your behalf and found the perfect gift for the scientist in your life or the person who loves a scientist. Drum roll, please…It’s the human embryonic […]

Right Turn: “Perceptions of Promise”

Author: Stacey Johnson, 11/29/13

. Science as art is not a new concept. Google the term and you’ll see 2,330,000 hits. Princeton University has been holding an art-science competition since 2005 and the organizers have received hundreds of images from within the university community. The 2013 winners are posted here. In the world of stem cells, there are many […]

Right Turn: Lights, camera, action!

Author: Stacey Johnson, 11/15/13

. Sometimes too much choice can be a bad thing. It paralyzes you. I was flummoxed by the many options available to me in selecting what to feature on Right Turn this week. Then it struck me: I have the perfect item right under my nose (so to speak). CCRM just launched a Regenerative Medicine […]

Right Turn: The sound of stem cells

Author: Stacey Johnson, 11/01/13

. If you visit the website of Dr. Michael West, CEO of BioTime, you can hear the “sound” of stem cells. Honestly. A computer algorithm has been used to convert microscopic images of human embryonic stem cells into an auditory file that is meant to represent what stem cells sound like. There are lots of […]