by Paul Krzyzanowski | Sep 29, 2011
by Paul Krzyzanowski Many people have a few pounds they’d like to get rid of and over the years numerous diets and supplements have hit the market to help those with little time or inclination to develop their own weight management plan. One of the more controversial...
by Lisa Willemse | Sep 21, 2011
This morning’s news scan turned up yet another sad tale about the dangers of unproven stem cell therapies and a warning to consumers to once again be skeptical of the claims made by the many unscrupulous clinics operating abroad. For the most part, the article...
by David Kent | Sep 14, 2011
by David Kent A prize-winning author sits down in an Edinburgh pub across from a world famous stem cell biologist. Together they begin to ponder mankind’s desire for eternal youth. Though it may sound like the first lines of a joke, it is the opening scene of a...
by Stem Cell Network | Sep 8, 2011
While ethical considerations can sometimes appear to take a back seat to lab results within the world of research, they are an integral part of any successful project -– or project proposal. Stem cell research is no exception –- in fact, given the vibrant and, at...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Sep 2, 2011
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) have great memories. They can remember whether they started out as a skin fibroblast, a blood cell or a pancreatic beta cell. Following reprogramming, iPSCs retain epigenetic (DNA packaging) signatures typical of their somatic...
by Stem Cell Network | Aug 16, 2011
A short time ago, Ed Yong blogged about a timeline he created on reprogrammed stem cells, which we’ve mentioned before in our own blog. It presented a good overview of the major papers that have defined the progress in this specific area and we found it interesting...
by Ben Paylor | Aug 10, 2011
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? – Paradise Lost, Milton This harrowing quote from Milton, if framed as a first-person narrative of a stem cell’s fate, paints a troubling (and highly...
by Stem Cell Network | Jul 28, 2011
by Peter Raaymakers, Stem Cell Network They’ve become ubiquitous in Web browsing, but those little text-based ads you see everywhere from the biggest newspaper to the smallest blog are called Google AdWords, and they’re big business in just about every...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Jul 21, 2011
Shinya Yamanaka’s first report of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) challenged what biologists thought they knew about terminal cell differentiation and caused a wave of excitement and hope for regenerative medicine applications. A second wave of excitement is...
by Michelle Ly | Jul 18, 2011
Susan Lim is perhaps not the likeliest of candidates when one brings to mind the image of a stem cell researcher. A surgical pioneer, Dr. Lim performed the first liver transplant in Asia, for which she received numerous honours. She brings a refreshing outlook on stem...
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