Privacy Policy
Signals Blog

Contributors

Categories

A prescription of hope

by | Aug 29, 2017

By Brian Sladek I am honoured to have my blog be just one of several covering this topic as part of Signal’s second annual blog carnival on the theme ‘Right to Try.’ Please click here to read what other bloggers think of this. As a patient, I don’t care about...

Right Turn: ‘Right to try’ state of affairs in U.S.

by | Aug 25, 2017

On Tuesday, August 29, Signals is hosting a blog carnival on the topic Right to Try. Before you read the perspectives of the contributing bloggers, here’s what President Trump thinks about the legislation and the Goldwater Institute’s reaction. It’s the Institute that...

Weighing in on a controversial topic

by | Aug 23, 2017

We are less than one week away from Signals’ second blog carnival! Last month I promised to reveal the topic and the participants. I also hinted that this year’s topic might strike some readers as controversial. Given that a few invited bloggers declined to...

Improving our understanding of how aging happens

by | Aug 3, 2017

Dr. William Stanford, The Ottawa Hospital, is working with colleagues to help patients with Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome (HGPS). They have shown that cells from individuals with HGPS – also called progeria – can be genetically reprogrammed, turning them into...

The stem cell community’s blog carnival is back!

by | Jul 27, 2017

Last August, Signals hosted its first blog carnival and it was so much fun, we’re doing it again. Missed it? No idea what a blog carnival involves? The way I explained it last year is like this: A blog carnival is essentially an online blogging “party” with many...