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Right Turn: No horsing around with this grand gesture

. American media and telecom billionaire John Malone, along with his horse-breeding wife Leslie, have generously donated U.S. $42.5 million to Colorado State University to launch the CSU Institute for Biologic Translational Therapies to develop regenerative medicine...

Grow your brains: Neural stem cells in 1 minute.

> Many of us only become acutely aware of our brain when it’s not working quite right. Like, say, if we have a migraine, or are diagnosed with a mental illness. Or we fall on the ice and give ourself a concussion that affects our vision, motor skills and...

Hot off the press: DNA-based bioprinting of tissues

. By S. Amanda Ali, PhD What do biomaterials mean to you? For this orthopaedic scientist, the first thing that comes to mind is the total joint replacement: artificial knees, hips and shoulders made from a variety of materials to reproduce joint function and suit each...

Biomaterials 101– A fate-twister

  By guest blogger Jane Cheung With contributions from Casandra Gardner, PhD and Joanna Fromstein P.Eng (Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine) “Fate has brought us here.” “This is my destiny.” We often read or hear these phrases in books or...