by David Kent | Apr 15, 2014
> In February this year, the biggest stem cell trial for heart attack patients was begun and will involve over 3000 patients from 11 different countries in Europe. The BAMI trial (the effect of intracoronary reinfusion of Bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells on...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 4, 2014
. This intriguing title is not completely my own. It is a shorter version of Alysson Muotri’s (UCSD) title from a presentation he gave to the governing Board of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine on March 13, 2014: “Reversing Autism in the Lab with...
by Lisa Willemse | Mar 14, 2014
> The eye is a complicated, fascinating and important organ. Historical records indicate that the Hindus of ancient India began performing cataract surgeries as early as the fifth century BC and that both the Egyptian and Greek civilizations had developed...
by Roshan Yoganathan | Mar 7, 2014
. I’m not sure many of you are die-hard biomaterial fans like me, but there was a shot heard around the biomaterial world when Canada’s very own Professor Michael Sefton, at the University of Toronto, proposed creating a heart in a box. He made the claim nearly ten...
by Sara M. Nolte | Mar 4, 2014
> A little while ago, I wrote a post about the BRCA1 gene and its role in breast cancer, and suggested that Angelina Jolie’s mastectomy reveal was a missed opportunity to provide information about hereditary breast cancer. I have since wondered what did we get out...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 21, 2014
. Dr. Robert Langer’s enthusiasm for the limitless promise of bioengineering is infectious. With his efforts and under his tutelage, one hopes that huge advances will be made in restoring movement to the paralyzed and curing the sick through, for example, more...
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