by Lisa Willemse | Mar 14, 2014
> The eye is a complicated, fascinating and important organ. Historical records indicate that the Hindus of ancient India began performing cataract surgeries as early as the fifth century BC and that both the Egyptian and Greek civilizations had developed...
by Mark Curtis | Mar 11, 2014
. Welcome to your update from the clinic for the month of February! OncoMed is the leader in news this month with various Phase 1b trials for its cancer stem cell-targeting fusion protein. Immunocellular Therapeutics and StemCells Inc. file orphan drug designations...
by Roshan Yoganathan | Mar 7, 2014
. I’m not sure many of you are die-hard biomaterial fans like me, but there was a shot heard around the biomaterial world when Canada’s very own Professor Michael Sefton, at the University of Toronto, proposed creating a heart in a box. He made the claim nearly ten...
by Sara M. Nolte | Mar 4, 2014
> A little while ago, I wrote a post about the BRCA1 gene and its role in breast cancer, and suggested that Angelina Jolie’s mastectomy reveal was a missed opportunity to provide information about hereditary breast cancer. I have since wondered what did we get out...
by Lisa Willemse | Feb 28, 2014
> This is the second time I have travelled down to Raleigh, North Carolina to attend the annual ScienceOnline conference. Conferences generally conjure certain standard stereotypes and expectations (i.e. lots of listening to presentations given by thought leaders...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 21, 2014
. Dr. Robert Langer’s enthusiasm for the limitless promise of bioengineering is infectious. With his efforts and under his tutelage, one hopes that huge advances will be made in restoring movement to the paralyzed and curing the sick through, for example, more...
by Roshan Yoganathan | Feb 18, 2014
. This past weekend I was watching the Superbowl, along with millions of North Americans,not to see the Seahawks beat down the Broncos, but for all the must-see million dollar commercials. The one commercial that stood out to me was the Geico commercial with the...
by Lisa Willemse | Feb 14, 2014
> Stem cells don’t usually feature prominently at Olympic events, unless in connection with performance enhancement, which has been alleged at both the 2008 and 2012 summer games. But, as Paul Knoepfler pointed out in his blog, if stem cell doping at the...
by Mark Curtis | Feb 11, 2014
. Welcome to your Regenerative Medicine Deal Review for the month of January! There was lots of flow in January, including yet another research collaboration from Cellular Dynamics International – this time with the Nestle Institute of Health Sciences to use the...
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