by Holly Wobma | Jul 16, 2013
. It’s probably safe to say that we all have some sort of genetic risk factor that runs in our families. For some its diabetes. For others it’s heart disease. For my family, it is mild hearing loss. In trying to make light of this, I sometimes tell myself, “Well, hey,...
by Holly Wobma | Jun 18, 2013
True synthetic blood is coming, but it won’t be packaged like this. We’ve all heard the idiom “it’s in my blood”. For me, this applies to hockey and rock climbing. And a quick survey of my class suggests that everything from Southern BBQ sauce and ice...
by David Kent | May 28, 2013
. A few weeks ago, Italian private company Stamina came under considerable pressure regarding their controversial use of mesenchymal stem cells in patients. The Italian government, it seems, had authorized an unproven stem cell therapy for use in patients. The...
by Lisa Willemse | May 24, 2013
Co-authored with Dr. Zubin Master, Assistant Professor at the Alden March Bioethics Institute, Albany Medical College and Research Associate at the University of Alberta’s Health Law and Science Policy Group. In the current discussion about the now controversial...
by Holly Wobma | May 22, 2013
Nepalese terraces. Photo: strudelt via Flickr . Picture traveling back in time to an era before cell phones (*shudder*). Before radios. Before germ theory. In fact, try taking yourself back to when written language was first being developed around 6000 BC. It’s hard...
by Natasha Davie | May 16, 2013
We live in a time of extraordinary medical advances. So far in 2013, we’ve seen the successful transplantation of a bioengineered kidney into rats, an infant reportedly cured of HIV using anti-retroviral drugs that are currently on the market, and discovered a protein...
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