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Right Turn: What do stem cells, ice and ALS have in common?

. 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...

Right Turn: Bringing stem cells to (fictional) life

> 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,...

Right Turn: Autism, Stem Cells and the Tooth Fairy

. 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...

Right Turn: Dance of the stem cell fairies

. 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...