by Stacey Johnson | Oct 3, 2014
. The colourful, beautiful, whimsical, original, intriguing (I could go on) images that were submitted to CCRM for its Cells I See contest are live on Facebook for your viewing pleasure and votes. Until October 18, 2014 people are encouraged to “like” their favourite...
by David Brindley | Oct 1, 2014
. With contributions from James Smith, a recent Oxford University graduate and current SENS Research Foundation Summer Scholar working at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. There were two momentous events on the night of August 23, 2014. First, the inaugural...
by Sara M. Nolte | Sep 29, 2014
> It’s September again! That means new grad students in the lab, seminars and courses start again, committee meetings, grant deadlines, product shows, and… Journal Club. What is Journal Club – and why am I about to spend an entire post talking about it? Ideally, it...
by Stacey Johnson | Sep 26, 2014
. An interest and appetite for science appears to be alive and well in two jurisdictions where high school students competed for the chance to spend part, or all, of their summer learning about stem cells and biomedical research. The winners of a science animation...
by David Brindley | Sep 23, 2014
. With contributions from James Smith, a recent Oxford University graduate and current SENS Research Foundation Summer Scholar working at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Assume a single bacterium weighs one thousand billionth of a gram. If it, and each of its...
by Lisa Willemse | Sep 19, 2014
> There are a multitude of ways to stay informed about research trends and advances in the field. Obvious ones, for a researcher or trainee are lab or journal club meetings, conferences, or journal subscriptions. Then there’s the online world, including any...
by Mark Curtis | Sep 18, 2014
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of August. Asterias Biotherapeutics breathes new life into a cell therapy shelved two years ago and initiates a Phase I/II study in patients with spinal cord injury. Northwest Biotherapeutics provides an update on...
by David Brindley | Sep 16, 2014
. With contributions from James Smith, a recent Oxford University graduate and current SENS Research Foundation Summer Scholar working at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute. Consider this question: if I gave you the option to take a drug offering a 100 percent chance...
by Lisa Willemse | Sep 12, 2014
> Those of you who’ve been following this blog regularly will know that we were in the process of building a science exhibit — we’ve published a few teasers, here and here. This week, Super Cells: The power of stem cells was unveiled in the small,...
by Mark Curtis | Sep 11, 2014
. Welcome to your deal review for the month of August. As would be expected at the end of the summer news flow was modest, but Northwest Biotherapeutics kept things alive with a $17.5 million financing via convertible debt, while Gamida Cell announced a game-changing...
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