by Lisa Willemse | Jun 6, 2014
> Cycling season is in full gear and for the rapidly growing number of enthusiasts, it means many miles on tarmac and trail, Strava leaderboard competitions and various degrees of obsession with the world’s major races. I’m not much of a road rider...
by Lisa Willemse | May 9, 2014
> I said goodbye to a much beloved uncle this week. I suppose it’s inevitable that mortality, aging and how and when we share our feelings with those we love would be on my mind over the 16 hours of driving to and from the funeral. Also not surprising that...
by Lisa Willemse | Apr 25, 2014
> Julia Pon is a MD/PhD student at the University of British Columbia with an interest in blood cancer. Like many before her, she noticed that the kind of information that is shared with cancer patients is different than what medical students are taught about the...
by Lisa Willemse | Apr 11, 2014
> I’ve been thinking a fair bit about the “personalities” of stem cells in recent weeks — specifically, the characteristics of stem cells that might translate into a persona or a fictional character of some sort. It’s with good reason,...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 4, 2014
. This intriguing title is not completely my own. It is a shorter version of Alysson Muotri’s (UCSD) title from a presentation he gave to the governing Board of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine on March 13, 2014: “Reversing Autism in the Lab with...
by Lisa Willemse | Feb 28, 2014
> This is the second time I have travelled down to Raleigh, North Carolina to attend the annual ScienceOnline conference. Conferences generally conjure certain standard stereotypes and expectations (i.e. lots of listening to presentations given by thought leaders...
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