by Krystal Jacques | Jul 28, 2022
I was telling a friend about how sex determination could be an interesting topic for my next blog and he responded asking, “Don’t we already know everything about sex determination?” So I asked an expert: Dr. Robin Lovell-Badge, the Principal Investigator of a stem...
by Stacey Johnson | Jul 22, 2022
The PR team at the Emily Whitehead Foundation, established in 2015, has been busy of late. The month of June saw the premiere of Of Medicine and Miracles, a documentary about Emily Whitehead and directed by Academy Award winning filmmaker Ross Kauffman, which played...
by Sara M. Nolte | Jul 14, 2022
Almost two years ago, I wrote a post about how scientists were looking for new immunotherapies to improve immunologically “cold” tumours’ responses to existing therapies. And while the findings of that article were very promising, tumour evasion of the immune system...
by Lyla El-Fayomi | Jul 7, 2022
“Regenerative medicine news under the microscope” is a monthly feature highlighting big stories in stem cell research. I sample the latest and greatest findings in recent press and package them into a single post. In this double issue, I cover a gene therapy for...
by Cal Strode | Jun 30, 2022
When I heard that the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) was hosting a public symposium to ask if regenerative medicine can turn back the clock on aging, my interest was piqued. The enthusiasm for putting the brakes on aging has been documented as...
by Stacey Johnson | Jun 24, 2022
Long before Bruce Willis’ family announced his aphasia diagnosis to the world, I witnessed the effects of it firsthand through someone in my extended family. Aphasia is characterized by difficulty communicating verbally and in writing, and the most common cause of...
by Cal Strode | Jun 16, 2022
Since Robert Hooke first laid eyes on a micro-organism using his custom-built microscope in the 1660s, artists have deployed their skills in service of helping us to see the small picture. Coining the word “cell” to describe what he saw through the lens, Hooke...
by Stacey Johnson | Jun 10, 2022
The race to produce lab grown food marches on. So where are we in 2022? Two years ago, blogger Elisa D’Arcangelo outlined some of the practical issues associated with developing lab grown meat – namely cost, increasing production and taste. She also explained the...
by Cal Strode | May 26, 2022
In part 1 of this feature marking the 10-year anniversary of Signals, we got to know the people behind the posts a little better. Now, we’re looking to the future of regenerative medicine and science with the help of our contributors. In this post, bloggers Lyla...
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