by Peter Raaymakers | Feb 27, 2015
Hematopoiesis is a long word, but in essence it describes a pretty straight-forward concept: The formation of our blood system, including all of its components. It’s a multi-step process beginning with stem cells and ending with mature, specialized ones like red...
by Lisa Willemse | Feb 13, 2015
> The blood stem cell (or hematopoietic stem cell as it’s known in scientific parlance) was the first stem cell to be identified, which makes it a bit of a celebrity, as stem cells go. Here in Canada, we like to think of Drs. James Till and Ernest McCulloch,...
by David Kent | Oct 28, 2014
> Last month, Signals re-posted a blog entry of mine from The Black Hole where I lamented the lack of teamwork in the life sciences. There are, however, always exceptions and I want to highlight one such exception that took the field of blood stem cell expansion by...
by David Kent | Jun 19, 2014
> Just four hours after landing in Vancouver for the 2014 meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, I was delighted to attend the late afternoon plenary session on Cell Heterogeneity. Both John Dick and Connie Eaves – juggernauts of the Canadian...
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...
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