by Nick Dragojlovic | Mar 4, 2015
> Scientists: I have some questions. Have you ever written a blog post about your field? Tweeted a link to a new scientific publication? Joined a forum discussion about the latest research? As it turns out, your likelihood of answering “yes” to one or more of these...
by Peter Raaymakers | Feb 27, 2015
Hematopoiesis is a long word, but in essence it describes a pretty straight-forward concept: The formation of our blood system, including all of its components. It’s a multi-step process beginning with stem cells and ending with mature, specialized ones like red...
by Mark Curtis | Feb 23, 2015
. Welcome to your deal review for the month of January. There was a mixed bag of news last month, which included financing activity, industry partnerships and research collaborations. The cell therapy tools industry was front and centre as NeoStem and Invetech struck...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 20, 2015
. If you haven’t heard the name Janet Rossant, my guess is that you aren’t part of the stem cell community or you spend a little too much time in the lab. Dr. Rossant is Chief of Research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada and she leads the new...
by Mark Curtis | Feb 19, 2015
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of January. Pluristem and OncoMed reported preliminary efficacy data from early-stage trials, while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European Medicines Agency (EMA) granted a number of Orphan Drug...
by Mark Curtis | Feb 17, 2015
> The scientific community has long sought to uncover the identity of a true dermal stem cell. While many unique cell populations have been described in the literature, some of which are predictive of a dermal stem cell, the exact location and behavior of this cell...
by Lisa Willemse | Feb 13, 2015
> The blood stem cell (or hematopoietic stem cell as it’s known in scientific parlance) was the first stem cell to be identified, which makes it a bit of a celebrity, as stem cells go. Here in Canada, we like to think of Drs. James Till and Ernest McCulloch,...
by David Kent | Feb 9, 2015
> This article is the second in a series about the human capital created by the Network of Centre of Excellence known as the Stem Cell Network (SCN), which was created in 2001, will wind down the majority of it’s activities this year. The first article focused on...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 6, 2015
. In 2012, Deborah Lieu from the University of California, Davis was granted $1.3 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to develop pacemaking cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells (HiPSCs) to replace electronic pacemakers. I...
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