by David Kent | May 24, 2012
As a basic researcher in stem cell biology, one of my biggest fears is moving too quickly with cell therapies that involve primitive, still largely mysterious, cell populations. At the World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress meeting this week, I felt...
by Stacey Johnson | May 24, 2012
My grandfather was a mathematician and chemical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project. I dated a chemical engineer for two years. Those two associations are the full breadth of my understanding of this field of science. Apparently I took chemistry in high...
by David Kent | May 22, 2012
You might expect this article to be about creating skin grafts for burn victims or something of that ilk. Instead though, it concerns the complicated process of taking a scientific discovery in regenerative medicine and bringing that discovery through clinical trials...
by Stem Cell Network | Jan 17, 2012
In recent years, the research community has been quite outspoken in its condemnation of rogue stem cell clinics operating in many countries across the globe. Indeed, through announcements made by health and related ministries in China, India and the US, it appears the...
by Lisa Willemse | Dec 21, 2011
In a traditional view of medical research, advances tend to be measured against the overarching goal of cure. Noble as this might be, research is rarely such a black and white affair — if we have learned anything, it’s that there are innumerable shades of grey....
by Lisa Willemse | Nov 15, 2011
Art shows are not exactly routine activities for those who work in research, let alone in the field of stem cells. So when an art exhibit that examines our perceptions of biotechnology and stem cell research opens in New York, it’s something of an occasion. Even...
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