by Alanna Evans | Jul 1, 2016
Straight from the laboratory to the runway, it looks like stem cells have gone haute couture. Fashion designer Dominic Pangborn has teamed up with a group of researchers from the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund at the University of Michigan to create a...
by Mark Curtis | Jun 30, 2016
Welcome to your update from the clinic for the month of May. Long-standing industry pioneer StemCells, Inc. decided to wind down its operations after a failed Phase 2 study in spinal cord injury. Aduro Biotech also saw a failure with its GVAX product in pancreatic...
by James Smith | Jun 28, 2016
This post was authored by Kelvin Ng and James Smith. Completing his PhD this year in the Karp lab at MIT/Harvard, Kelvin focuses on strategies and technologies that guide or accelerate the translation of therapeutic extracellular vesicles. His multidisciplinary...
by Samantha Payne | Jun 20, 2016
This post is the second of two covering the World Biomaterials Congress. To read my previous blog about the use of biomaterials to study cell behaviour and differentiation in vitro, please click here. This post will cover the use of biomaterials for in vivo delivery...
by Stacey Johnson | Jun 3, 2016
Have you ever wanted to shed your skin? I don’t mean in the metaphorical sense like becoming a different person, free of all the old baggage we accumulate in life. And I’m not talking about CCRM’s new logo and colours either, but thanks for noticing. (Shameless.) I...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 29, 2016
Jennifer Hicks at Forbes has written about a handheld surgical device that can draw stem cells to repair cartilage so that the damaged cartilage can heal itself with its own cells. How cool is that?! The ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science in...
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