by Stacey Johnson | May 4, 2018
Does it seem like CRISPR is everywhere these days? That’s because it is! The popular gene editing tool – Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats – is significant for its ability to edit DNA at precise locations, making it possible to correct...
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 Sara M. Nolte | Jan 15, 2018
With the start of a new year, I like to take a moment to think about what things in cancer research got me really excited the previous year. Beyond a doubt, that thing for me in 2017 was the first (and second!) FDA approval of a CAR T-cell (chimeric antigen receptor...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 27, 2017
Before Jake Gyllenhaal starred in the 2001 comedy Bubble Boy, there was a 1976 version starring John Travolta called The Boy In The Plastic Bubble. Both movies were inspired by the lives of David Vetter, who had severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), and Ted DeVita,...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 20, 2017
In what feels like back-to-back news, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two gene therapies for cancer. The actual announcements happened seven weeks apart, but for patients, manufacturers, investors and shareholders, it’s like Christmas – over...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 6, 2017
Do you recognize the name Timothy Caulfield? How about if I tell you that he took on Gwyneth Paltrow and her Goop empire in his popular 2015 book Is Gwyneth Paltrow Wrong About Everything? Caulfield is a professor of health law and science policy at the University of...
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