by Stacey Johnson | Apr 20, 2018
This week (April 15-21) is National Volunteer Week. Across Canada, 12.7 million people donate their time to make Canada a better place to live. In the stem cell community, scientists, clinicians, researchers and hundreds of university students across the country work...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 13, 2018
For those who aren’t familiar with THIW, there are parties but no films getting their world premieres. The comparison I’m making in the title is to the fact THIW is becoming a must-attend week-long event, with so much going on from morning to night, that serious...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 30, 2018
Canada’s reputation for excellent science in the field of regenerative medicine can be traced back to the University of Toronto (U of T). Quite literally, Drs. James Till and Ernest McCulloch were U of T researchers when they discovered stem cells in the early 1960s....
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 23, 2018
With 570 stem cell clinics in the United States alone offering direct-to-consumer marketing of stem cell interventions and “clear grounds for concern that some of the companies we found are not compliant with federal regulations” (Knoepfler and Turner, Cell Stem...
by Sowmya Viswanathan | Mar 12, 2018
Dr. Sheng Lin-Gibson is the Chief of Biosystems and Biomaterials Division at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and directs its Regenerative Medicine Programs. She serves as the Convenor of ISO/TC 276: Biotechnology Working Group...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 8, 2018
International Women’s Day (IWD), also known as the United Nations (UN) Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace, is an opportunity to honour women’s achievements, “to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 6, 2018
Trustees at the Halton Catholic District School Board adopted a motion last week to ban board donations to non-profits or charities that publicly support “either directly or indirectly, abortion, contraception, sterilization, euthanasia, or embryonic stem cell...
by Patrick Bedford | Feb 26, 2018
Regenerative medicine researchers are making enormous strides to discover more about diseases and disease treatments. From heart regeneration to cancer immunotherapies to gene therapies, they are doing some of the most exciting research today, and some of them are...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 23, 2018
If you follow amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) research, you may be interested to know that ALS Canada is holding a free webinar (registration link enclosed) on February 28 to explain how funds from the ALS #Icebucketchallenge from 2014 were spent. Do you remember...
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