by Stacey Johnson | Nov 13, 2015
Are you a wannabe astronaut? If you haven’t yet heard the news, NASA is hiring. Think you got the right stuff? The boys from One Direction do and you’ll know this if you have viewed their “NASA” video (over 185 million have clicked!). Now, apart from...
by Holly Wobma | Nov 10, 2015
The last two decades have seen a number of fascinating innovations in biomaterial scaffolds development. This comes from the growing realization that 2D culture of cells can only do so much in terms of mimicking physiological niches of the body. To encourage...
by Hamideh Emrani | Nov 9, 2015
Continuing with the theme of interesting biomaterials-related talks at the recent Till & McCulloch Meetings in Toronto, Canada, was the one delivered by Professor Molly Shoichet from the University of Toronto. Her group focuses on designing polymer scaffolds to...
by Stacey Johnson | Nov 6, 2015
According to the helpful infographic below from Thermo Fisher, genetic engineering has been around since 1831. With the introduction of CRISPR/Cas9 in 2012, genome engineering – or at least CRISPR – seems to be on everyone’s lips. Signals bloggers are no exception....
by Hamideh Emrani | Nov 4, 2015
Among many interesting talks at this year’s Till and McCulloch Meetings in Toronto, Canada, there were a couple related to biomaterials, which I’d like to focus on. In the first talk, professor Milica Radisic, University of Toronto, talked about two recent...
by Nicole Kuchinsky | Nov 3, 2015
At one point or another we’ve all experienced a bad haircut. We get over such minor annoyances secure in the knowledge that “it will grow back.” The ability of our hair to grow back is based on the amazing capacity of the hair follicle to undergo continuous cycles of...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 30, 2015
More than 450 people were in Toronto, Canada, this week to attend the 2015 Till & McCulloch Meetings. As you would expect from Canada’s premier stem cell conference, there was great science, interesting debates, multiple awards, talks by industry and lots of...
by Mark Curtis | Oct 27, 2015
Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of September. OncoSec Medical released some initial data from its Phase 1/2 study investigating ImmunoPulse IL-12 DNA in a rare skin cancer. Pluristem and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 23, 2015
If you are a loyal reader of Right Turn (thank you!) then you will know that I scour the Internet looking for unique, thought-provoking, clever, peculiar (with a mega star thrown in to the mix), educational, funny, odd, intriguing – I could go on – items to feature....
by Hamideh Emrani | Oct 21, 2015
Another in the series: “What Drives Research in the Field of Biomaterials?” The amazingly complex system of the brain, and its network of many different cell types interacting and functioning together, has always been “top of mind” – pardon the pun – for many...
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