by Jovana Drinjakovic | Jul 3, 2018
Blood stem cells may have evolved to inhabit bone tissue to avoid DNA damage from UV rays, a Harvard study suggests. Also known as haematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), these cells are tasked with making blood — a medley of about a dozen cell types that move oxygen around...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Jun 15, 2018
Plagued by failures of early human studies from the 1990s, including the death of a patient, gene therapy is making a comeback with promising results. And it has a tiny virus to thank. After the first 2012 European gene therapy approval for a liver disease, and last...
by Stacey Johnson | Jun 1, 2018
Are you familiar with The Conversation – not to be confused with The Conversation with Amanda De Cadenet? Amanda De Cadenet is one busy lady who makes television and online shows for, and about, women. The Conversation is a not-for-profit media outlet that publishes...
by Stacey Johnson | May 4, 2018
Does it seem like CRISPR is everywhere these days? That’s because it is! The popular gene editing tool – Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats – is significant for its ability to edit DNA at precise locations, making it possible to correct...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 20, 2018
This week (April 15-21) is National Volunteer Week. Across Canada, 12.7 million people donate their time to make Canada a better place to live. In the stem cell community, scientists, clinicians, researchers and hundreds of university students across the country work...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 30, 2018
Canada’s reputation for excellent science in the field of regenerative medicine can be traced back to the University of Toronto (U of T). Quite literally, Drs. James Till and Ernest McCulloch were U of T researchers when they discovered stem cells in the early 1960s....
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