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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...

Breathing new life into gut regeneration with living bandages

At first pass, the skin and the gut are not so different: both are lined with an outer layer of cells that serve as the first line of protection from biological, chemical and physical wear-and-tear. Accordingly, both the gut and skin are subject to tissue breakdown...