by Holly Wobma | Oct 6, 2014
> “Wow, my mouth just got diabetes.” Such are my immediate thoughts after taking a bite out of a red velvet cupcake. Though I must qualify: by cupcake, I mean a skyscraper of frosting carefully balanced on a minimal crumbly foundation. Making such a hyperbolic...
by Lisa Willemse | Sep 19, 2014
> There are a multitude of ways to stay informed about research trends and advances in the field. Obvious ones, for a researcher or trainee are lab or journal club meetings, conferences, or journal subscriptions. Then there’s the online world, including any...
by Stacey Johnson | Aug 22, 2014
. You have to be living under a rock – or perhaps spending every minute of your time culturing your cells – to be unaware of the ALS #Icebucketchallenge. Since it began on July 29 on social media, the American ALS Association has raised millions (nearly $42 million at...
by Sara M. Nolte | Aug 19, 2014
> In previous posts, I have alluded to the fact that studying cancer in a dish (in vitro) is not optimal (here and here). Today, I give you the next essential tool in a cancer stem cell (CSC) researcher’s toolbox: xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation is an...
by Holly Wobma | Aug 5, 2014
> Imagine you are about to interview someone, and rather than receiving a full reference letter, your candidate is described with but a single word. Do you think you’d get the whole picture? Of course you wouldn’t, but depending on the word chosen, you could make a...
by Lisa Willemse | Jul 14, 2014
Written with contributions from Geoff Lomax, CIRM’s Senior Officer for Medical and Ethical Standards and Rosario Isasi, Research Associate at McGill University and Academic Secretary for the International Stem Cell Forum Ethics Working Party. Portions of this post...
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