by Stacey Johnson | Nov 30, 2018
“Every day of our lives, we are surrounded by the fruits of scientific discovery.” So writes Carrie Wolinetz, Associate Director for Science Policy, National Institutes of Health. In her Why Science Policy Matters blog, she provides several examples of tools we have,...
by Samantha Yammine | Nov 22, 2018
Canada is home to some of the world’s top stem cell scientists: we’ve led the discoveries of stem cells in the brain, retina, blood, skin and several types of cancer stem cells, and continue to push science’s understanding of these promising cells each year. But...
by Samantha Yammine | Nov 16, 2018
This year, the annual Till & McCulloch Meetings ended with a plenary session on the “next generation of regenerative medicine” to keep attendees thinking forward as they headed back home. While all of them were incredibly exciting, I was particularly struck by the...
by Michael May | Nov 7, 2018
Michael May is President and CEO of CCRM. Peter Zandstra is the Chief Scientific Officer at CCRM and the Founding Director of UBC’s School of Biomedical Engineering. Zandstra and May co-founded CCRM, which launched in June 2011. This article also appears in...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 26, 2018
It’s heartbreaking to watch this February 2018 video of Jonathan Pitre, the Canadian teen with epidermolysis bullosa (EB), who advocated for patients and fought so hard to be rid of his disease, and sadly died two months after the video below was published. He was the...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Oct 17, 2018
Scientists have enlisted the gene editing tool CRISPR in a hunt for cancer causing mutations, releasing into the open valuable data that could help doctors better advise their patients. A new study lists almost 4,000 individual “misspellings,” or variants, in the...
by Sara M. Nolte | Oct 11, 2018
While it’s been years since I’ve been in school or academia, I can’t help but feel nostalgic this time of year, when fall marks the beginning of a new year (and the return of the pumpkin spice latte, mmm!). Many of you are hunkering down in your courses, starting new...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 5, 2018
The 10 percent rule usually works fairly well when estimating disease prevalence in Canada compared to the equivalent in the U.S. Our population is about 10 percent the size of the U.S. so it makes sense that we match up, to an equivalent degree, on health issues,...
by Stacey Johnson | Sep 28, 2018
September is National Blood Cancer Awareness Month. “Few people know that many of today’s fundamental treatments for various cancers, like chemotherapy, began with blood cancer research,” explains Alicia Talarico, President, Leukemia & Lymphoma...
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