by Erin Sugar | Aug 8, 2014
. The following scene from Family Guy offers a glimpse into both the tone and subject matter of this week’s Right Turn. Being an avid lover of superheroes, monsters and all things supernatural, the topic of healing and limb regeneration has always been a subject I...
by Holly Wobma | Aug 5, 2014
> Imagine you are about to interview someone, and rather than receiving a full reference letter, your candidate is described with but a single word. Do you think you’d get the whole picture? Of course you wouldn’t, but depending on the word chosen, you could make a...
by Stacey Johnson | Jul 29, 2014
On June 18, 2014, I walked into the enormous, blue lit plenary hall of the Vancouver Convention Centre excited to hear Canada’s own Janet Rossant give the opening remarks for ISSCR’s Presidential Symposium. I glanced up at the information screens and read, to...
by Stacey Johnson | Jul 25, 2014
. It’s nice to end the week on a happy note. For a company like CCRM that commercializes regenerative medicine products and therapies, the news that ViaCyte, a company based in San Diego, California, has applied to the FDA to start clinical trials for its Type 1...
by Mark Curtis | Jul 21, 2014
. The Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) just finished hosting the 7th annual Business of Regenerative Medicine course here in Toronto, which saw many notable figures in the space come to weigh-in on a number of critical issues relevant to...
by Lisa Willemse | Jul 18, 2014
A few months ago, I mentioned that we were involved in the creation of a traveling science exhibit with a number of great partners, and introduced one of the fictional characters, the “Regenerator”, who will be appearing as one of our stem cell...
by Lisa Willemse | Jul 14, 2014
Written with contributions from Geoff Lomax, CIRM’s Senior Officer for Medical and Ethical Standards and Rosario Isasi, Research Associate at McGill University and Academic Secretary for the International Stem Cell Forum Ethics Working Party. Portions of this post...
by Stacey Johnson | Jul 11, 2014
Stem cells as art is becoming a recurring theme on Signals. If you want to admire some beautiful stem cell art, there’s Klair Reis’ petri projects, Radha Chaddah’s beautiful photography here, and stem cell images are featured every week on Signals near the bottom of...
by Mark Curtis | Jul 9, 2014
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of June. Neuralstem presented final data on a first-in-class drug for the treatment of major depressive disorder, which is proving to be an effective and non-invasive means to boost brain volume. OncoMed has a...
by Sara M. Nolte | Jul 7, 2014
> Anyone who has, or is working on, a graduate degree (e.g. PhD, MSc) has likely encountered the “what does a PhD/MSc get you?” question. In my experience, the most frustrating thing wasn’t that I was asked this question at least three times at every family...
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