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Fifty years

In the scientific world, 50 years can be an eternity. Consider the fruit fly or certain cells – organisms whose lifespan is counted in hours or days. Or, it can be the blink of an eye when compared to the progression of an ice flow, for instance. In the field of stem...

A tribute to Ernest “Bun” McCulloch (1926-2011)

  On January 20, 2011 Ernest (“Bun”) McCulloch passed away. Although Bun was known to the young generation of stem cell researchers only by reputation, for those of us who knew him “back then” he was an icon. “Back then” was the 60s and 70s when the group led by...

Is 2010 the year of the stem cell Nobel?

For the second year running, mainstream media in Canada and abroad has picked up on Nobel buzz surrounding stem cell scientists James Till and Ernest McCulloch, both Senior Scientists at the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto. Speculation surrounding a Nobel prize...