by Stacey Johnson | Dec 23, 2022
Having written several “my favourite blog posts” over the years, I decided to turn this very important responsibility over to my communications colleagues at CCRM. I asked Cal Strode and Tannen Horber, who are both contributors and have bios on the site, to pick their...
by Kevin Robb | Oct 14, 2022
My heart is pounding, and my islets are secreting. Maybe it’s my fifth cup of sugary coffee kicking in, or maybe they’ve been inspired by the plenary session I’m recalling. While the former is more likely, I toy with the idea of the latter. In the “Clinical...
by Stacey Johnson | May 17, 2019
It was announced publicly this week that the Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine’s (OIRM) funding will not be renewed after March 2020. Closing OIRM would be a significant loss to the regenerative medicine community in Ontario, where so many of Canada’s stem...
by Hamideh Emrani | Jun 7, 2017
Did you know that a healthy person with a healthy lifestyle and diet might still end up being diabetic? That is certainly the case with those who have type 1 diabetes (T1D). In T1D, the patient’s body has lost the ability to produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that...
by David Kent | Mar 1, 2017
From science fiction novelists through to medical doctors and industry leaders, a huge amount of attention has been given to the idea of growing human organs for transplantation in large farm animals like pigs and sheep. The need for organs to transplant into patients...
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