by Sara M. Nolte | Aug 8, 2016
If you’ve been on social media lately, you’ve probably come across various campaigns looking for stem cell donors. You may even know someone who needs a stem cell transplant. It is increasingly apparent that there is a demand for stem cell donors for those in need....
by Stacey Johnson | Jul 22, 2016
You would be hard-pressed to find a Canadian stem cell scientist who doesn’t know that Drs. Jim Till and Ernest McCulloch advanced medical research across the globe with their discovery, in 1961, of blood stem cells at Toronto’s Princess Margaret Hospital, today the...
by Stacey Johnson | Jul 14, 2016
It’s summer and if you’re like me, you’re already dipping into the ice cream a little too often. My kids love cotton candy and snow cones, the kind you get at fairs and festivals. Yes, it’s that season too. And who doesn’t love a good carnival? On that note, I’m very...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Jun 13, 2016
When Dr. Andras Nagy, a Senior Scientist at Sinai Health System’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, set out to catalogue molecular events behind reprogramming — a process of making stem cells in a dish — he did not expect to uncover a new kind...
by Stacey Johnson | May 20, 2016
A popular marketing strategy is to reach (insert demographic) “where they live.” Science Genius appears to have taken that concept to heart when it comes to kids and science. Science Genius, launched in December 2012 by Christopher Emdin, the musician GZA and the...
by Stacey Johnson | May 13, 2016
I’ve read enough PhD Comics to understand that being a scientist is hard. (I work with them too, but I’m saving those stories for my tell-all autobiography.) Recently I stumbled upon* what I believe could be a useful resource for scientists to make their lives a...
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