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...
by Lisa Willemse | Jan 3, 2014
> What’s the end of a year without a recap, countdown or best of list? I admit that I enjoy reviewing lists of the events, films, music at the end of each year, to remind myself of what has passed and to see where my favourites stack up against the...
by Stacey Johnson | Dec 27, 2013
If you are fortunate enough to have time off over the holiday season, I’ll wager that you may spend some of that time in front of the television. Call me a Grinch, but Christmas TV programming is something that I generally avoid. If, like me, you plan on...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Dec 23, 2013
> Last Friday afternoon, I raced over to a University of Toronto neighbourhood pub for the annual Ontario Stem Cell Initiative (OSCI) holiday party. This year, OSCI decided to change up the usual scientific poster session and created a science communication...
by Stacey Johnson | Dec 20, 2013
. With five days left to go until Christmas, are you feeling stressed about that hard-to-buy-for person on your Christmas list? Don’t despair. I have scoured the Internet on your behalf and found the perfect gift for the scientist in your life or the person who loves...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Dec 16, 2013
> This is part three of an interview series with Michael West, CEO of BioTime. Read parts one and two. The prospects for BioTime and other companies that operate in the tissue engineering and cell therapy market are good. The industry is growing by about 18% per...
by Patrick Blit | Dec 13, 2013
. Regenerative architecture is an architectural discipline that explores the use of novel designs for the goal of producing sustainable structures that minimize the impact on our planet. You’re probably thinking that bamboo flooring is an example of this and you...
by Natasha Davie | Dec 10, 2013
. The UK has previously committed to incorporating some sort of value based pricing into its reimbursement scheme to improve patient access to innovative medicines. With recent backtracking on this decision, as the Jan 2014 deadline for this integration approaches, we...
by Lisa Willemse | Dec 6, 2013
> To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them We know this famous soliloquy from Shakespeare’s...
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