by Holly Wobma | Aug 26, 2013
Are we beginning to understand the complex conversations that control blood stem cell fate? Researchers in Toronto have found how one gene, GATA-3, helps prolong self-renewal properties. > They say working on the trauma unit isn’t for the faint of heart. But I...
by David Kent | Aug 12, 2013
. Last month, two studies were published in Science from Luigi Naldini’s group on correcting disease-associated mutations in patient’s stem cells. The two diseases, Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome (WAS) and Metachromatic Leukodystrophy, are sometimes treated with...
by Paul Krzyzanowski | Jul 3, 2013
George Daley (File photo) Immediately after last month’s ISSCR meeting, George Daley travelled to the University of Toronto where he had been invited to be an external reviewer on a PhD thesis defense. While there, Daley spoke to a packed audience interested in what...
by Holly Wobma | Jun 18, 2013
True synthetic blood is coming, but it won’t be packaged like this. We’ve all heard the idiom “it’s in my blood”. For me, this applies to hockey and rock climbing. And a quick survey of my class suggests that everything from Southern BBQ sauce and ice...
by David Brindley | Jun 13, 2013
. Irrespective of scientific discipline, everyone is aware of the blood-brain barrier. Since its proposal in 1900 by Max Lewandowsky, and later confirmation of its discovery in the 1960s – facilitated by the advancement of the scanning electron microscope – it has...
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