by Stacey Johnson | Aug 22, 2014
. You have to be living under a rock – or perhaps spending every minute of your time culturing your cells – to be unaware of the ALS #Icebucketchallenge. Since it began on July 29 on social media, the American ALS Association has raised millions (nearly $42 million at...
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 Angela C. H. McDonald | Aug 30, 2012
If you tuned into the evening news on Monday night (at least here in Canada), you would have seen my PhD supervisor Janet Rossant, discussing a recent advancement in stem cell differentiation. Amy Wong, post-doctoral fellow in the Rossant lab, created a protocol for...
by Stem Cell Network | Jan 27, 2011
Earlier this week, many of the world’s leading scientists engaged in developing stem cell-based treatments for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Motor Neuron Disease (MND) met for the first time as a group to share their work. Held in New York, the meeting was...
by Katie Moisse | Jul 29, 2010
Buried deep within our bony skulls and spinal columns, and separated from our blood by an infallible barrier, our neurons are, I would argue, the most protected cells in our bodies. This is a good thing for obvious reasons. This is a bad thing, however, for scientists...
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