by Lisa Willemse | Apr 25, 2013
Co-authored with Geoff Lomax, CIRM’s Senior Officer to the Standards Working Group from the “Understanding Stem Cell Controversies” Workshop organized by the Stem Cell Network in Montreal. This article is cross-posted on the CIRM blog. The afternoon session on Day 2...
by Lisa Willemse | Apr 24, 2013
Co-authored with Geoff Lomax, CIRM’s Senior Officer to the Standards Working Group from the “Understanding Stem Cell Controversies” Workshop organized by the Stem Cell Network in Montreal. This article is cross-posted on the CIRM blog. “Stem cell...
by Nick Dragojlovic | Apr 23, 2013
. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) ongoing efforts to assert its authority to regulate U.S.-based companies that offer unlicensed stem cell therapies (Regenerative Sciences or Celltex, for example) has prompted a mixed response from the regenerative...
by David Brindley | Apr 22, 2013
. Within the past few weeks, we have all lost someone who has impacted our lives. And this I can guarantee. On Monday 8th April 2013, I woke up, grabbed my tennis bag and headed for a morning hit. In the car, I heard the lacquered voice of the BBC’s John Humphrys...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 19, 2013
. In this podcast titled “Opportunities and Challenges in Developing Innovative Stem Cell Therapies,” Dr. Armand Keating focuses specifically on the commercialization of mesenchymal stem cells (stromal cells). He has established the largest stem cell transplant...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Apr 16, 2013
. Last week I posted a summary of the first half of a full day Communications for Scientists workshop organized by the Stem Cell Network. This post picks up where I left off, with a description of a “Dragon’s Den” style pitch session intended to introduce trainees to...
by Lisa Willemse | Apr 12, 2013
Developmental biologists among you may be aware that voting in the Node’s image competition wrapped this week. Five wonderful images were in the running for the cover on a future issue of Development – and bragging rights, of course. I discovered the...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Apr 10, 2013
. If Edward Bulwer-Lytton were a biologist two centuries ago, he might have quipped that the pen is mightier than the pipette instead of immortalizing the sword in his expression. Yet phrases emphasizing the power of words have been around for nearly three thousand...
by Holly Wobma | Apr 9, 2013
“A Rat’s Past Lives, a Giraffe and Bull” depicts the interaction between the extracellular matrix and differentiated hematopoietic stem cells. Image by Elizabeth Cambridge from the Cells I See library . If you Google the term “stem cells”, you will...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 5, 2013
How many university students can say they invented a product that people around the world will want to use? For that matter, how many people have ever invented a product that made it to the market?! Joe Landolina is CEO and Co-Founder of Suneris, Inc. and a student at...
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