by David Brindley | Jun 13, 2013
. Irrespective of scientific discipline, everyone is aware of the blood-brain barrier. Since its proposal in 1900 by Max Lewandowsky, and later confirmation of its discovery in the 1960s – facilitated by the advancement of the scanning electron microscope – it has...
by Stacey Johnson | May 3, 2013
. It was big news this week when doctors at Children’s Hospital of Illinois performed the first successful pediatric transplant in the U.S. of a regenerated trachea using a synthetic scaffold. The Canadian father and Korean mother of two-year-old Hannah Genevieve...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 19, 2013
. In this podcast titled “Opportunities and Challenges in Developing Innovative Stem Cell Therapies,” Dr. Armand Keating focuses specifically on the commercialization of mesenchymal stem cells (stromal cells). He has established the largest stem cell transplant...
by David Brindley | Mar 19, 2013
. Part 5 in Cell Therapy Industry 2027 series A short time ago, I had the immense pleasure of driving through the Napa Valley bathed in a warm pastel sunset. The view was accompanied by a two-chord soundtrack: the reassuring chinking of several bottles of the...
by David Brindley | Nov 30, 2012
The global health care sector is innovative, impactful and, despite addressing fundamental problems in human health, can be inescapably faddish. Despite the industry’s pride in an empirical approach that yields robust and practicable data, the covers of Nature,...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 26, 2012
On the same day that I learned the (disturbing and sad) news that a friend, a woman in her early 40s, has a pacemaker, I read that a stem cell scientist in cardiovascular medicine, at the University of California, has received a grant to develop stem cells that...
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