by Camila Londono | Oct 25, 2016
The fifth Till & McCulloch Meetings started off with a bang, with an incredibly exciting and provocative talk by Dr. Sara-Jane Dunn that highlighted the predictive power of Boolean network models. Dr. Dunn, who works at Microsoft Research, introduced the idea of...
by David Kent | Aug 2, 2016
Last week, a good friend of mine forwarded me a correspondence from the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). I was expecting to read about a new drug being tested in clinical trials or maybe a neat scientific perspective on leukemia biology, but what I got instead...
by Stacey Johnson | Jul 8, 2016
Much has been said on the topic of using animals for medical/scientific research. There are excellent and compelling arguments for and against the issue and my plan is to avoid taking a stand here. (You may be tempted to call me chicken, but that would be a really bad...
by David Kent | May 31, 2016
Throughout the last decade, I have undertaken research in the stem cell field in two countries (Canada and the United Kingdom) and while my work has never involved the ethically contentious human embryonic stem (ES) cell lines, I have interacted with dozens of...
by Stacey Johnson | Apr 15, 2016
The picture to the right is of my cat Chloe, all dressed up for her debut on Signals. Amazingly, Franklin West (University of Georgia) thinks domesticated cats (Chloe!) are the ideal vessel for saving big cats of the endangered species kind. The idea is to collect...
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