by David Kent | Sep 22, 2015
. I was reading Nature the other day and came across a neat article from Yukikio Yamashita’s group at the University of Michigan entitled Nanotubes mediate niche–stem-cell signalling in the Drosophila testis. It may not sound interesting to our average reader, but the...
by Holly Wobma | Sep 15, 2015
. For linguistics enthusiasts, you might find it curious that almost every language uses anatomical metaphors in everyday speech. For example, you may have heard the phrase: “that cost an arm and a leg” or “I’d give up a kidney to [fill in blank].” To those we love we...
by Stacey Johnson | Aug 14, 2015
. Do you listen to The Stem Cell Podcast? If not, why not? Last September, former Signals co-editor Lisa Willemse blogged about the podcast, which, at the time, was celebrating its first anniversary. The hosts and creators behind the podcast are celebrating another...
by Holly Wobma | Aug 6, 2015
. This is not a blog about cosmology, nor the space-time continuum or our place in the universe. As much as I love these deep topics, today I’d like to discuss something, quite literally, more superficial: the aging of human skin. As with other organs in our body,...
by Stacey Johnson | Jul 31, 2015
. Tomorrow (or today for you readers), I’m heading to a BBQ. Canadians love to BBQ. I don’t have any stats on this, but I was born in Canada and I know this to be true. To further support my statement, Google says Canada “leads the world when it comes to online...
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