by Roshan Yoganathan | Mar 7, 2014
. I’m not sure many of you are die-hard biomaterial fans like me, but there was a shot heard around the biomaterial world when Canada’s very own Professor Michael Sefton, at the University of Toronto, proposed creating a heart in a box. He made the claim nearly ten...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 21, 2014
. Dr. Robert Langer’s enthusiasm for the limitless promise of bioengineering is infectious. With his efforts and under his tutelage, one hopes that huge advances will be made in restoring movement to the paralyzed and curing the sick through, for example, more...
by Roshan Yoganathan | Feb 18, 2014
. This past weekend I was watching the Superbowl, along with millions of North Americans,not to see the Seahawks beat down the Broncos, but for all the must-see million dollar commercials. The one commercial that stood out to me was the Geico commercial with the...
by Mark Curtis | Feb 4, 2014
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of January! We start the year off with the German health authority approving Pluristem’s next generation GMP cell manufacturing facility. Neuralstem successfully, and safely, transplants NSI-556 cells directly...
by Lisa Willemse | Jan 31, 2014
> By now, most readers will be familiar with this week’s announcement of a remarkable new discovery that mouse cells were made pluripotent using a relatively simple and quick acid bath technique. For those who aren’t, there’s reams of coverage,...
by Stacey Johnson | Jan 24, 2014
. My colleague, Casandra Gardner, PhD, was excited when she came across the image, below, of a plastic cell. Since my understanding of polymers is limited to what my university chem-eng boyfriend taught me many (many!) years ago, I thought Casey would do a much better...
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