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 | Mar 30, 2018
Canada’s reputation for excellent science in the field of regenerative medicine can be traced back to the University of Toronto (U of T). Quite literally, Drs. James Till and Ernest McCulloch were U of T researchers when they discovered stem cells in the early 1960s....
by Samantha Payne | Feb 16, 2018
In many regenerative medicine strategies, we know that one strategy is usually not enough. Stimulating regeneration in any tissue is a complex, multifaceted problem involving the coordination of many biological signals. Yet what if we could deliver a therapeutic, like...
by David Kent | Feb 6, 2018
In my last post, I drew our readers’ attention to an excellent article by Giulio Cossu and colleagues on stem cells and regenerative medicine where the authors set out a number of recommendations for the regenerative medicine field. One of those recommendations was...
by Sara M. Nolte | Jan 15, 2018
With the start of a new year, I like to take a moment to think about what things in cancer research got me really excited the previous year. Beyond a doubt, that thing for me in 2017 was the first (and second!) FDA approval of a CAR T-cell (chimeric antigen receptor...
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