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Day 1 at #TMM2013: Hongkui Deng breaks down iPS cells

> Set in the beautiful mountain setting of Banff National Park, the first hours of the Till and McCulloch meeting have not disappointed. Our morning plenary began with an excellent historical perspective from Shin-Ichi Nishikawa on the origins of blood stem cells...

Jacob Hanna on Radically Deterministic Reprogramming @TMM2013

Guest post by Paul Knoepfler, cross-posted on ipscell.com What is “radically deterministic” cellular reprogramming? Jacob Hanna’s lab recently published a very high profile Nature paper on nearly 100% efficient iPS cell formation based on targeting a...

Right Turn: Tips for the novice conference goer

. Canada’s premier stem cell research event, the Till and McCulloch Meetings, is just around the corner.  It seems like a fitting time to introduce you to Ph.Diddy, a creation of Life Technologies Corp – coincidentally a conference sponsor. Ph.Diddy has pre-conference...

View from the floor 6: Research outside of academia

Commercialization plenary summary: part 4 of 4 The last speaker of the commercialization plenary at the Till and McCulloch Meetings earlier this month was Dr. Stephen Minger from GE Healthcare, who shared GE’s perspective regarding the therapeutic and research...

View from the floor 5: Pushing the boundaries with technology

  The final day of the 2012 Till and McCulloch Meetings was packed with great science, but a common theme definitely emerged – technological advances are changing the way we think about and perform scientific research. Keynote speaker Helen Blau issued a warning...