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Right Turn: Exciting progress in treating Cystic Fibrosis

I am going to take a guess that the teen romance movie Five Feet Apart, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse, introduced many people to cystic fibrosis (CF). Certainly that was the case for my teenage daughter. I learned about CF through television ads, “back...

A gene-editing fairy tale: Sleeping Beauty transposons

We’ve spent a lot of time swooning over CAR T-cells and CRISPR here at Signals, but recently a potential up-and-coming leading lady in the gene and cancer therapy fields has caught our eye. Our interest was piqued by a recent press release from The Max Delbruck Center...

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...

‘Tis the season for the 2019 Till and McCulloch Meetings

Marissa Lithopoulos is a Ph.D. Candidate in Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Ottawa. She works under the supervision of Dr. Bernard Thébaud at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Marissa studies how brain stem cells are impaired in neonatal...