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Diabetes research in Canada: 100 years later

  2021 marked the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin – a Canadian breakthrough that has saved the lives of countless people with diabetes. It seems only fitting that 100 years later, we take a moment to reflect on how far Canadian diabetes research has...

Cardiovascular regeneration at TMM 2021

The 2021 Till & McCulloch Meetings (TMM) are where the heart is. More specifically, I am referring to the major advances in cardiovascular regenerative medicine presented during the Bioengineering Regeneration plenary session on the final day of the conference. It...

Blog Carnival: Is aging reversible?

For this year’s blog carnival, I asked our illustrious group of bloggers, academics and thought leaders to discuss this statement by David Sinclair, a director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for the Biology of Aging Research at Harvard Medical School: “Aging is far more...

Reversing aging: Not just a single system to consider…

For Signal’s annual blog carnival this year, we were asked to consider David Sinclair’s recent comments in the New York Times where he said “Aging is far more reversible than we thought.” As someone who has dedicated the better part of the last 20 years to studying...