by Michelle Ly | Nov 29, 2010
I was having my bathroom renovated a few months ago and got into a discussion with my contractor about work. I mentioned that I had done some work with the BC Cancer Research Centre and other biomedical research institutes. His comment was, “Cancer research? So do you...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Nov 17, 2010
In a previous post, Chris Kamel recently reviewed the Nature article about direct creation of blood progenitors from skin fibroblasts as discovered by Mick Bhatia’s research group. The fascinating thing about this article is the potential for enabling autologous...
by Stem Cell Network | Nov 2, 2010
Although the use of umbilical cord blood for different medical treatments has been around since 1988, when the first transplant of cord blood was used to treat a patient with Fanconi’s anemia, it’s still a relatively new development in the area of regenerative...
by Stem Cell Network | Oct 22, 2010
In recent years the Stem Cell Network has worked closely with its international colleagues to shed light on clinics offering “stem cell” therapies for which there is scant scientific evidence. One such initiative is A Closer Look at Stem Cell Treatments, a web...
by Allison Van Winkle | Oct 8, 2010
High-throughput screening, in which many cell culture conditions can be tested using a combination of robotics, control software, and/or highly sensitive detection, allows researchers to explore new ideas quickly; thousands of combinations can be efficiently tested...
by Katie Moisse | Oct 6, 2010
Day two of the World Stem Cell Summit featured a much-anticipated update on a groundbreaking clinical trial launched in January to assess the safety and feasibility of injecting fetal stem cells into the spinal cords of people with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)....
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