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 Lisa Willemse | Jul 14, 2014
Written with contributions from Geoff Lomax, CIRM’s Senior Officer for Medical and Ethical Standards and Rosario Isasi, Research Associate at McGill University and Academic Secretary for the International Stem Cell Forum Ethics Working Party. Portions of this post...
by Lisa Willemse | Apr 11, 2014
> I’ve been thinking a fair bit about the “personalities” of stem cells in recent weeks — specifically, the characteristics of stem cells that might translate into a persona or a fictional character of some sort. It’s with good reason,...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 4, 2014
. This intriguing title is not completely my own. It is a shorter version of Alysson Muotri’s (UCSD) title from a presentation he gave to the governing Board of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine on March 13, 2014: “Reversing Autism in the Lab with...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 7, 2014
. Science communications – #scicomm for you Twitter fans – is an important aspect of what we do here at Signals Blog and even rates its own category. Science communications aims to educate the public (and sometimes scientists) about a science-related topic. A variety...
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