by Stacey Johnson | Feb 7, 2014
. Science communications – #scicomm for you Twitter fans – is an important aspect of what we do here at Signals Blog and even rates its own category. Science communications aims to educate the public (and sometimes scientists) about a science-related topic. A variety...
by Lisa Willemse | Jan 31, 2014
> By now, most readers will be familiar with this week’s announcement of a remarkable new discovery that mouse cells were made pluripotent using a relatively simple and quick acid bath technique. For those who aren’t, there’s reams of coverage,...
by Ben Paylor | Jan 21, 2014
> “I resolve to not get any older.” This may seem like a somewhat outlandish New Year’s resolution, a desire more grounded in the realm of science fiction than science itself. But a growing group working in the field of biogerontology would argue that it is...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Dec 23, 2013
> Last Friday afternoon, I raced over to a University of Toronto neighbourhood pub for the annual Ontario Stem Cell Initiative (OSCI) holiday party. This year, OSCI decided to change up the usual scientific poster session and created a science communication...
by Lisa Willemse | Dec 6, 2013
> To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them We know this famous soliloquy from Shakespeare’s...
by Ben Paylor | Dec 5, 2013
> Just over two years ago I wrote about early reports from Dr. Roberto Bolli et al.’s SCIPIO trial running out of the University of Louisville in collaboration with the Harvard Medical School. Since this time, much has happened in the realm of cell therapy to treat...
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