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Right Turn: Regenerative medicine debuts on The Late Show

Does it seem like regenerative medicine is having its moment in the sun? Last week, the news that GE Healthcare and the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) are building a centre for advanced therapeutic cell technologies, with $20 million...

Get serious: Seize the moment while politicians are listening

. Joe Sornberger is Director of Communications Programs for the Canadian Stem Cell Foundation and author of Dreams & Due Diligence: Till and McCulloch’s Stem Cell Discovery and Legacy.   Back in the day, I toiled as a newspaper reporter, covering Parliament...

Right Turn: This is not a One Direction concert review

. Last night, I took my daughters to a One Direction concert. Regardless of what you might now think of me (us), they still have several (million) fans around the world. The 40,000 screaming girls in attendance at the Rogers Centre showed the Brit boys lots of love....

Update from the Clinic: March

. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of March. Investors weren’t so keen on Neuralstem’s topline results in amyotropic lateral sclerosis (ALS). NeoStem’s follow-up data from its PreSERVE study in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) was somewhat...

Right Turn: A lesson in blood development

Hematopoiesis is a long word, but in essence it describes a pretty straight-forward concept: The formation of our blood system, including all of its components. It’s a multi-step process beginning with stem cells and ending with mature, specialized ones like red...