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Right Turn: “Perceptions of Promise”

. Science as art is not a new concept. Google the term and you’ll see 2,330,000 hits. Princeton University has been holding an art-science competition since 2005 and the organizers have received hundreds of images from within the university community. The 2013 winners...

Regenerative Medicine Deal Review: November

. Welcome to the regenerative medicine deal review for the month of November. Cytori Therapeutics and Lorem Vascular have teamed up to catalyze the commercialization of Cytori cell therapies using its proprietary Celution® System in Asia. There was also a notable deal...

A PSA for prostate cancer stem cells

> In honour of Movember – men’s health awareness month – I’m going to talk about prostate cancer. Not in the usual way – PSA (prostate-specific antigen) screens and clinical exams – but rather, from the perspective of cancer stem cells (CSCs), and their role in...

Update from the Clinic: October

. Welcome to October’s Update from the Clinic. Interesting developments this past month included the release of Phase 1/2a data from Living Cell Technologies that provides a first look at the safety and efficacy of its DIABECELL® product. We also saw an approval for...

Right Turn: The sound of stem cells

. If you visit the website of Dr. Michael West, CEO of BioTime, you can hear the “sound” of stem cells. Honestly. A computer algorithm has been used to convert microscopic images of human embryonic stem cells into an auditory file that is meant to represent what stem...