by Stacey Johnson | Mar 6, 2018
Trustees at the Halton Catholic District School Board adopted a motion last week to ban board donations to non-profits or charities that publicly support “either directly or indirectly, abortion, contraception, sterilization, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell...
by Samantha Payne | Feb 16, 2018
In many regenerative medicine strategies, we know that one strategy is usually not enough. Stimulating regeneration in any tissue is a complex, multifaceted problem involving the coordination of many biological signals. Yet what if we could deliver a therapeutic, like...
by David Kent | Feb 6, 2018
In my last post, I drew our readers’ attention to an excellent article by Giulio Cossu and colleagues on stem cells and regenerative medicine where the authors set out a number of recommendations for the regenerative medicine field. One of those recommendations was...
by Sara M. Nolte | Jan 15, 2018
With the start of a new year, I like to take a moment to think about what things in cancer research got me really excited the previous year. Beyond a doubt, that thing for me in 2017 was the first (and second!) FDA approval of a CAR T-cell (chimeric antigen receptor...
by Nicole Kuchinsky | Dec 5, 2017
One of my personal highlights from this year’s Till and McCulloch Meetings was attending the “Science for Citizens” panel (reported on in a previous post). Experts including Timothy Caulfield, patient advocate William Brock, and National Post writer Tom...
by Stacey Johnson | Nov 24, 2017
Happy Thanksgiving to our American family, friends and colleagues. It may feel like 2017 didn’t offer quite as much to be thankful for on a global level, but there was one uplifting international event that rocked our world. Despacito. On January 12, 2017, Universal...
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