by Lisa Willemse | Oct 21, 2013
> If the thought of majestic mountains, impossibly blue skies and natural hot springs isn’t enough to put Banff, Alberta into your calendar this week, then perhaps this preview of the Till & McCulloch Meetings will change your mind. This is the second...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 18, 2013
. If you’ve been paying attention, Right Turn has brought you a variety of educational, amusing and hopefully thought-provoking posts. We have featured a rapping professor, photography, an infographics contest, TED Talks and so much more. But we’ve never had a Bruno...
by Mark Curtis | Oct 17, 2013
. Welcome to the first Regenerative Medicine Deal Review, an overview of recent licensing, partnering, and financing activity all exclusively in the regenerative medicine and cell therapy industries. Like my first post ‘Update from the Clinic’, this piece is intended...
by Angela C. H. McDonald | Oct 16, 2013
> This week, while perusing my favourite news websites, I discovered that October is Down Syndrome Awareness month in the US. We Canadians however, have reserved our Down Syndrome Awareness week for the first week of November but nevertheless, this got me thinking...
by Alessandra Pasut | Oct 15, 2013
> As scientists we’d like to think and even take a bit of pride knowing our research is as value-free as it could be, detached from any political, economical or societal forces and influences. Yet history teaches us how basic research discoveries, from...
by Ben Paylor | Oct 11, 2013
“Stem cell research is going to impact on the lives of all Canadians as we move to an era of new stem cell-based treatments for degenerative diseases. StemCellShorts helps to engage the public in understanding the science of stem cells and I have been delighted to be...
by Holly Wobma | Oct 9, 2013
> For anyone following the celebrity gossip of the stem cell field, you’ve probably come across one of our rising stars, the induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC). Award winning and deemed to have loads of potential, each one of us can produce this type of cell. The...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Oct 8, 2013
This is part two of a series on Michael West. Read part one. When most people hear of new applications coming out of stem cell research it’s usually via headline grabbing soon-to-be-products like stem cell derived livers, replacement ears, transplantable retinas,...
by Stacey Johnson | Oct 4, 2013
. With over 1,000 TED Talks, it’s inevitable that more than one good regenerative medicine talk will appear in Right Turn. The talk below, by Dr. Robert Langer of MIT, takes some commitment at nearly 18 minutes in running time, but if you’re a fan of biomaterials (or...
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