by Lisa Willemse | Jan 31, 2014
> By now, most readers will be familiar with this week’s announcement of a remarkable new discovery that mouse cells were made pluripotent using a relatively simple and quick acid bath technique. For those who aren’t, there’s reams of coverage,...
by Stacey Johnson | Jan 24, 2014
. My colleague, Casandra Gardner, PhD, was excited when she came across the image, below, of a plastic cell. Since my understanding of polymers is limited to what my university chem-eng boyfriend taught me many (many!) years ago, I thought Casey would do a much better...
by Ben Paylor | Jan 21, 2014
> “I resolve to not get any older.” This may seem like a somewhat outlandish New Year’s resolution, a desire more grounded in the realm of science fiction than science itself. But a growing group working in the field of biogerontology would argue that it is...
by Lisa Willemse | Jan 17, 2014
> If you’ve ever wondered what makes a stem cell hasten its way down the mutational road to cancer, wonder no more. The answer is revenge – a kind of adolescent rebellion against parental (the body’s) and evoloutionary control. At least...
by Sara M. Nolte | Jan 15, 2014
> I have recently been transitioning from “basic” science research to science communication. Why? Because there is a great disparity in what the public, policy makers, and even clinicians, know and think about research, and what the researchers know. I believe as...
by Mark Curtis | Jan 13, 2014
. Welcome to your Regenerative Medicine Deal Review for the month of December. Toronto-based Stem Cell Therapeutics successfully executed on a financing of $33 million, while Pluristem announces it is moving forward on a licensing agreement with Korea-based CHA....
by Lisa Willemse | Jan 10, 2014
> Earlier this week, we tweeted some articles published online at Scientific American that provide some perspectives on the complexity and high costs of drug discovery – so far, two have been published, here and here. The tweet elicited a thought-provoking...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Jan 9, 2014
> If your morning cup of coffee wasn’t enough to wake you up today, researchers from the New York Stem Cell Foundation and Columbia University just reported being able to generate iPS cells from human brain tissue that’s been frozen for 11 years:...
by Mark Curtis | Jan 7, 2014
. Welcome to your Update from the Clinic for the month of December. Athersys and NeoStem both confirm completion of enrollment for phase 2 studies while bluebird bio announces the first patient transplanted in its phase 1/2 study of HGB-205 in patients with...
by Holly Wobma | Jan 6, 2014
> You need only look at an old air conditioner filter to gain an enormous appreciation for our kidneys. Every day, our kidneys filter just under 200L of fluid, filled with all kinds of gnarly toxins that we’d rather not know about. Most of the time, they operate...
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