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Right Turn: The comic side of lab life

. Life in the lab has its own peculiarities that are best understood by those who toil away for long hours, keeping cells fed and happy day after day. I can’t say I have first hand experience with it myself, but often hear about it from the many trainees...

Right Turn: A walk to remember

. Today’s Right Turn, brought to you by CCRM’s summer student Erin Sugar, features an interactive art installation of a human cell that allows individuals to enter and navigate its walls, activating different stages of the cell life cycle with each step. Located in...

Right Turn: The next top model is in a dish

. Studying disease in a petri dish is nothing new. But the way we’ve been able to make models of disease – and turn those diseased cells back in time to their earliest beginnings – is new. By peering back in time, researchers are gathering a wealth...

Right Turn: Innovation you can sink your teeth into

Today’s Right Turn is brought to you by Erin Sugar, communications intern at the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine. Erin’s love of hamburgers was not harmed by the viewing of this video. Culinary connoisseurs prep your palettes for the...

Right Turn: Cord Blood Awareness Month

. July is Cord Blood Awareness Month, an internationally recognized campaign that helps mothers, families, physicians, and researchers learn more about cord blood and cord blood banking. Cord blood is the blood left over in the umbilical cord immediately following the...

Right Turn: 30th anniversary of ‘Stem Cell Rapper’

. Jonathan Garlick, a professor at Tufts University near Boston, has been helping students connect to science through original rap lyrics that he composes and sings in class. Professor Garlick says rapping curriculum “immediately creates a common language that didn’t...