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Right Turn: Genes are this season’s hottest trend

In what feels like back-to-back news, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved two gene therapies for cancer. The actual announcements happened seven weeks apart, but for patients, manufacturers, investors and shareholders, it’s like Christmas – over...

Right Turn: This is us

If you’ve stumbled upon this blog thinking you will be reading about the attractive and talented cast of the popular 2016 TV show on NBC, I suspect you will be very disappointed. While there is video for you below, you will not see any rippling muscles and you don’t...

Building a bridge for brain repair

The brain is one of the most complex and delicate organs of the body, with very little capacity to regenerate itself. As such, any disease or injury it sustains is a challenge for regenerative medicine researchers to design effective strategies. Therapeutics need to...

Home is where the gut is

The potential of lab-grown mini organs goes beyond learning how to manufacture replacement body parts to undo disease; it could allow researchers to glimpse, for the first time, the swaths of microorganisms that live inside us and shape our health. A deeply entrenched...

The making of a bioactive “tissue paper”

If you live in Toronto (Canada), you know that we have two seasons: winter and construction season. Between new condo developments and homes being renovated or restored, construction is everywhere. Right now, there are five active projects going on in the relatively...