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...
by David Brindley | Apr 22, 2013
. Within the past few weeks, we have all lost someone who has impacted our lives. And this I can guarantee. On Monday 8th April 2013, I woke up, grabbed my tennis bag and headed for a morning hit. In the car, I heard the lacquered voice of the BBC’s John Humphrys...
by Holly Wobma | Apr 9, 2013
“A Rat’s Past Lives, a Giraffe and Bull” depicts the interaction between the extracellular matrix and differentiated hematopoietic stem cells. Image by Elizabeth Cambridge from the Cells I See library . If you Google the term “stem cells”, you will...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Mar 16, 2013
. As a follow up to last month’s post describing how leaked information about an Alzheimer’s drug clinical trial led to the largest ever case of insider trading and destroyed the careers of Dr. Sidney Gilman, a well-respected clinician, and Matthew Martoma, a young...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Mar 13, 2013
[pullquote]In time, this purchase might make BioTime the company that Geron was supposed to be.[/pullquote]Avid watchers of the stem cell and regenerative medicine market have no doubt heard of Geron selling its stem cell assets to BioTime. Nature covered it in some...
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