by Stacey Johnson | Jul 29, 2016
It was Science magazine’s 2013 breakthrough of the year and called a “turning point in cancer.” It even scored its own awareness month that year. Cancer immunotherapy – therapies that harness the power of a patient’s immune system to fight their disease – had...
by Holly Wobma | Jul 28, 2016
The summer 2016 Olympics are rapidly approaching and I’ve already been blown away by preview clips of some of the competing athletes performing amazing (and kind of dangerous!) looking stunts. Clouding this year’s games, however, has been the Zika virus outbreak, for...
by Stacey Johnson | Jul 8, 2016
Much has been said on the topic of using animals for medical/scientific research. There are excellent and compelling arguments for and against the issue and my plan is to avoid taking a stand here. (You may be tempted to call me chicken, but that would be a really bad...
by Holly Wobma | Jul 6, 2016
It is often the case that to produce something ‘shiny,’ new and better, we must first get rid of the old. This is true even in the case of stem cell therapies. Hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplants have been around since the mid-twentieth century and are used to...
by Samantha Payne | Jun 20, 2016
This post is the second of two covering the World Biomaterials Congress. To read my previous blog about the use of biomaterials to study cell behaviour and differentiation in vitro, please click here. This post will cover the use of biomaterials for in vivo delivery...
by Alanna Evans | Jun 17, 2016
Peanut butter and jelly. Macaroni and cheese. Fish and chips. Some things are just better paired together. But there’s one combination you’d never expect to see: surrogate rhinos and stem cells. With just three northern white rhinos left on earth, it looks like...
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