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Blog carnival update: Topic and bloggers revealed!

In case you missed it: Signals is hosting its first “blog carnival” on August 25, 2016. What is that you ask? Think of a blog carnival as a single venue hosting a variety of entertainment. In this case, the “entertainment” are posts from influential bloggers across...

Right Turn: Rock star in a Petri dish

You could say Guy Ben-Ary is a rock-n-roll Renaissance man. In his 9-to-5 life, he’s manager of CellCentral, Australia’s first integrated histology and biological imaging lab. And in the hours that remain, he’s an artist drawing inspiration from his day job. Most...

Ugly duckling spreads its wings

  When Dr. Andras Nagy, a Senior Scientist at Sinai Health System’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, set out to catalogue molecular events behind reprogramming — a process of making stem cells in a dish ­— he did not expect to uncover a new kind...

The waiting game: First human iPSC clinical trial on hold

. Nicole Forgione is a post-doctoral fellow working in the Fehlings group at the Toronto Western Research Institute. Currently she holds a Toronto Western Research Institute Fellowship to support her work on cell-based regenerative therapies for traumatic spinal cord...