by Stacey Johnson | Mar 23, 2018
With 570 stem cell clinics in the United States alone offering direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cell interventions and “clear grounds for concern that some of the companies we found are not compliant with federal regulations” (Knoepfler and Turner, Cell Stem...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 8, 2018
International Women’s Day (IWD), also known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace, is an opportunity to honour women’s achievements, “to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 6, 2018
Trustees at the Halton Catholic District School Board adopted a motion last week to ban board donations to non-profits or charities that publicly support “either directly or indirectly, abortion, contraception, sterilization, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell...
by David Kent | Feb 6, 2018
In my last post, I drew our readers’ attention to an excellent article by Giulio Cossu and colleagues on stem cells and regenerative medicine where the authors set out a number of recommendations for the regenerative medicine field. One of those recommendations was...
by David Kent | Jan 22, 2018
Over the Christmas break, I finally got around to reading an article that has been in my “to read” pile for far too long. For anybody new to the regenerative medicine and cellular therapy fields, it is an absolutely fantastic resource to catch up on some of the...
by Stacey Johnson | Dec 15, 2017
If I say the names Kirsty Duncan, Mona Nemer, Julie Payette and Molly Shoichet, what comes to mind? There are many ways to answer that question, of course, but the answer I’m looking for is that they are all female scientists or engineers who hold significant...
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