by Stacey Johnson | Sep 21, 2018
Yesterday I took a trip to Toronto Pearson International Airport. Sadly, that’s where my voyage ended. I wasn’t there to escape to somewhere hot and tropical or cold and cozy; my destination was Terminal 1 at the airport. Full stop. Pearson is the location of an...
by Sara M. Nolte | Jul 30, 2018
I honestly believe that we’re living in the most exciting time for cancer therapeutics. The past few years (dare I say decades, even?) have pushed the boundaries of cancer treatment from radiation and chemotherapy to the use of cancer-targeted antibodies, oncolytic...
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...
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