by Stacey Johnson | Jun 14, 2019
Writers will know that inspiration can come from the strangest places. Earlier this week I came across a Twitter thread from “Dr Esther @EstOdek” who was amusingly upset (I think that’s an oxymoron) that she learned, too late for her PhD on starfish, that The Hulk’s...
by Lyla El-Fayomi | May 22, 2019
A mouse with mysterious cables attached to its head explores an enclosure, casually walking past a small wooden stick, uninterested. Cut to another scene of the same mouse as it walks past the same stick – only this time, a light atop its head begins to glow. Without...
by Stacey Johnson | May 17, 2019
It was announced publicly this week that the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s (OIRM) funding will not be renewed after March 2020. Closing OIRM would be a significant loss to the regenerative medicine community in Ontario, where so many of Canada’s stem...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Apr 18, 2019
This article was first published here. It is reprinted with permission of the Donnelly Centre. Depending on the type of surface they adhere to in a lab dish, stem cells can exhibit vast differences at the molecular level with implications for research and therapy. The...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Apr 4, 2019
As the most common fatal genetic disorder, cystic fibrosis (CF) has been at the forefront of genetic research since the gene responsible for it was discovered 40 years ago. But with more than 300 known disease-causing mutations, or variants of the CF gene, disease...
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