by Paul Krzyzanowski | Jul 8, 2010
The concept of personalized medicine is an intuitive one: knowing what treatment to provide a patient based on their own individual case of a disease. Molecular techniques and various flavours of “-omics” provide high precision in determining the status and types of...
by Stem Cell Network | Jul 6, 2010
by Tania Bubela Increasingly, commercialization is a key requirement for securing project funding and support for scientific research. The field of stem cell research is no exception. But does this emphasis on commercialization, which necessarily involves issues of...
by Allison Van Winkle | Jun 30, 2010
In the body, cartilage has minimal potential to heal itself once damaged, as the tissue is not naturally exposed to a blood supply, and is then prevented from benefiting from the body’s immune response and wound healing capabilities. By using a tissue engineering...
by David Kent | Jun 28, 2010
Earlier this month, the New Scientist shook up the stem cell community, putting forth the idea that publication speed, frequency, and journal quality might be skewed by where you’re from and who you know rather than the quality of your data. The article, entitled...
by Ubaka Ogbogu | Jun 24, 2010
NAS revises stem cell guidelines: The US National Academy of Sciences recently released amendments to its influential and widely adopted voluntary Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. This is the third set of amendments since the guidelines were first...
by Stem Cell Network | Jun 19, 2010
And the last word (or words) goes to Fabio Rossi of the University of British Columbia. So ends a great conference!...
by Stem Cell Network | Jun 19, 2010
Our couch is just too inviting… more comments on ISSCR 2010 from Mike Kallos of the University of Calgary and Feodor Price of the Ottawa Hospital Research...
by Stem Cell Network | Jun 19, 2010
More ISSCR meeting insights from James Ellis of Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children and Michael Rudnicki, Scientific Director of the Stem Cell...
by Stem Cell Network | Jun 18, 2010
More thoughts on the ISSCR conference in San Francisco from the...
by Stem Cell Network | Jun 18, 2010
We’re a the ISSCR meeting in San Francisco inviting folks to stop by the Stem Cell Network booth (number 509), sit on our comfy couch and talk about what they’ve enjoyed the most at the 2010 ISSCR annual meeting. Featured here are Bernard Thébaud of the...
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