by Lyla El-Fayomi | Nov 4, 2021
“Regenerative medicine news under the microscope” is a monthly feature highlighting big stories in stem cell research. I will sample the latest and greatest findings in recent press and package them into a single post. This month, I cover a technologically advanced...
by Stacey Johnson | Sep 24, 2021
Let’s play a game. If you could choose, what would be your superpower? Invisibility is a popular one, as are super strength, the ability to read minds, and time travel (but we know that messing with time can be dangerous). This list of the best superpowers of all time...
by Tara Fernandez | Aug 25, 2021
The last few decades have seen a dramatic leap in life expectancies across developed countries—people are living longer than ever before, and the age of the centenarian could soon be upon us. For example, in the ‘70s Canadians lived an average of 72.7 years. Today,...
by Tara Fernandez | Jul 7, 2021
In early 2021, a young boy in Barcelona was the first to receive Pfizer’s investigational gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). This was part of a global Phase 3 human trial to test Pfizer’s lead candidate, PF-06939926, in a cohort of 99 patients with...
by Stacey Johnson | Mar 19, 2021
The more attention stem cells, cell therapies and gene therapies get, the more education there needs to be so the public can differentiate between approved and unapproved treatments. At this time, there are over 1,220 clinical trials ongoing worldwide (including...
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