by Stacey Johnson | May 4, 2018
Does it seem like CRISPR is everywhere these days? That’s because it is! The popular gene editing tool – Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats – is significant for its ability to edit DNA at precise locations, making it possible to correct...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 20, 2018
This week (April 15-21) is National Volunteer Week. Across Canada, 12.7 million people donate their time to make Canada a better place to live. In the stem cell community, scientists, clinicians, researchers and hundreds of university students across the country work...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 13, 2018
For those who aren’t familiar with THIW, there are parties but no films getting their world premieres. The comparison I’m making in the title is to the fact THIW is becoming a must-attend week-long event, with so much going on from morning to night, that serious...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 23, 2018
With 570 stem cell clinics in the United States alone offering direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cell interventions and “clear grounds for concern that some of the companies we found are not compliant with federal regulations” (Knoepfler and Turner, Cell Stem...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 8, 2018
International Women’s Day (IWD), also known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace, is an opportunity to honour women’s achievements, “to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have...
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