by David Kent | Jun 29, 2015
. Over the last decade, there has been a lot of talk about how blood stem cells typically live in a low oxygen environment (~1 to 4%) and most of the work that researchers do is performed at normal oxygen levels (e.g., 20% of the air). However, very few researchers...
by David Kent | Jun 26, 2015
. I just sat through one of the simplest and most logical talks. Dr. Elly Tanaka, from Heidelberg, took the stage in the plenary session and described an incredible set of data that her lab has generated to understand the molecules involved in limb regeneration – a...
by Lisa Willemse | Jun 2, 2015
. A clinical trial set to begin this month in Ottawa will test the safety and efficacy of mesenchymal stem cells to stimulate repair of damaged nerves in MS patients. This article was published simultaneously on the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine website....
by David Kent | May 5, 2015
. One of the most fascinating questions for me, since I entered the field of stem cell biology, has been how a stem cell chooses what to do when it divides. I’ve looked down the microscope at single cells, which look like little air bubbles for the most part, watched...
by Mark Curtis | Apr 28, 2015
. After several years of intense systematic research, and toiling with a differentiation protocol, Dr. Doug Melton, and his lab at Harvard University, finally decoded the sequence of genes that needs to be activated to yield mature, insulin-producing beta cells in...
by David Kent | Mar 24, 2015
> At one of my very first Canadian Stem Cell Network Annual General Meetings, when I was just a couple of years into my stem cell biology training, I remember sitting down just after lunch when a jovial Italian man sauntered up to the stage and apologized to the...
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