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Joshua Dierolf (www.joshuadierolf.com) is a PhD candidate at Western University studying the influence of metabolism on stem cell pluripotency and early development. It is hard to evade the incessant bombardment of social media pseudoscience. Like most things in life,...

Right Turn: Holiday gifts to help find cures

Are you a risk taker? Do you pride yourself on giving unique and intriguing gifts? Well if you haven’t yet heard of Two Blind Brothers, pay attention. Two Blind Brothers produces clothing to fund blindness research at Foundation Fighting Blindness (FFB). As far as...

Right Turn: On your mark, get set, MO!

While this November has been dramatic on the weather front, it has been unremarkable as far as Movember goes. I am only n=1, but I haven’t noticed any unusual facial hair growing on male colleagues, friends and family. In fact, I think I’ve spotted only two...

Right Turn: Curing Canavan Disease with gene therapy

Rare diseases are defined as such because the number of people affected by them is considered very low. Depending on which country you live in, that number will change. There are so many rare diseases in the world that if you add up the number of people living with...