by Erin Sugar | Oct 16, 2015
. Walking through the doors of MaRS Discovery District’s Phase II building in Toronto, Canada brings visitors face to face with Super Cells: The Power of Stem Cells, a free, award-winning exhibition with the purpose of educating children and teens, ages 4-14, about...
by Hamideh Emrani | Oct 2, 2015
. So many of today’s biomedical advances are only possible because of a step forward in basic science research that happened many years ago. Basic science, be it biology, math or physics, always tries to advance our knowledge of the universe around us. It doesn’t...
by David Kent | Sep 22, 2015
. I was reading Nature the other day and came across a neat article from Yukikio Yamashita’s group at the University of Michigan entitled Nanotubes mediate niche–stem-cell signalling in the Drosophila testis. It may not sound interesting to our average reader, but the...
by Stacey Johnson | Sep 18, 2015
. Ever since Kevin McCormack, Director of Communications at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), produced the first episode of “Stem Cells in Your Face,” I’ve been waiting for the sequel. If you, like me, are a fan, then the wait is over....
by Stacey Johnson | Sep 11, 2015
. University and college students have invaded Toronto in the hundreds of thousands (nearly 200,000 apparently). Not that I think this is a bad thing, as I stated last week. I recognize that this is a phenomenon seen across Canada and around the world, but with four...
by Stacey Johnson | Sep 4, 2015
. It’s September. I can almost hear the school bells ringing. I can definitely feel excitement in the air. For many, back to school isn’t something to dread: just the opposite; it’s something to get excited about. Tests and homework and waking up early aren’t much...
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