by Stem Cell Network | Mar 15, 2011
Yesterday the Ministers of Health for the Provinces and Territories of Canada announced an investment of CAD $48M over eight years to establish a national umbilical cord blood bank for Canada. This is a very welcome, and some might say, overdue investment for which...
by Stem Cell Network | Mar 7, 2011
What role does art play in communicating science? It’s a question that has been asked and studied rather extensively and it was one of the topics raised during the POP/SCIENCE panel discussion at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary last Thursday. The event was held in...
by Michelle Ly | Feb 22, 2011
As we get further into 2011, embryonic stem (ES) cells continue to be a hot topic. The ability of ES cells to differentiate into virtually any other type of cell makes them a prime avenue for research in biomedical applications. They have also been a source of great...
by Ubaka Ogbogu | Feb 8, 2011
A few weeks ago I blogged about the recent Supreme Court of Canada decision on the constitutional validity of several sections of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act, Canada’s assisted reproduction and embryo research legislation. I am currently preparing a paper for...
by David Grant | Jan 26, 2011
How do newspaper articles portray stem cell tourism? A research team at the University of Alberta recently asked this question, and their results were published last month in the journal Nature. Their conclusions were both surprising, and hopeful. The team, led by...
by David Kent | Jan 19, 2011
Banned from receiving federal funds in 2004 by the Bush administration, human embryonic stem cell research was recently embraced by the Obama administration in March 2009 — sort of, anyway. As many readers are no doubt aware, U.S. courts are currently embroiled...
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