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TED-Ed: An attempt at translating sciences to society

By Sarthak Sinha In the two weeks following their release, over 250,000 individuals worldwide have watched and shared these two TED-Ed lessons (see below); a project we worked on for three months. As a reflection on this work, I wanted to share where it all started,...

Of seismic waves and closing days: take home messages

. With contributions from James Smith, a recent Oxford University graduate and current SENS Research Foundation Summer Scholar working at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. There were two momentous events on the night of August 23, 2014. First, the inaugural...

Stifling Science?

  On June 18, 2014, I walked into the enormous, blue lit plenary hall of the Vancouver Convention Centre excited to hear Canada’s own Janet Rossant give the opening remarks for ISSCR’s Presidential Symposium. I glanced up at the information screens and read, to...

Careful with the heart strings: Promise vs. potential

> The cellular therapy plenary at the ISSCR conference on June 19 was an incredibly interesting mix of hope and despair. On one hand, the opening talk by Leigh Turner made us imagine thousands of people in the United States getting duped into stem cell therapies as...