by Laine Bodnar | Mar 19, 2020
Canada’s strength in regenerative medicine (RM) and cell and gene therapies is a result of efforts that take place from sea to shining sea. Western Canada’s growing RM community significantly increases Canada’s competitiveness on the global playing field through its...
by Stacey Johnson | Feb 28, 2020
I am going to take a guess that the teen romance movie Five Feet Apart, starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse, introduced many people to cystic fibrosis (CF). Certainly that was the case for my teenage daughter. I learned about CF through television ads, “back...
by Erika Siren | Sep 11, 2019
At first pass, the skin and the gut are not so different: both are lined with an outer layer of cells that serve as the first line of protection from biological, chemical and physical wear-and-tear. Accordingly, both the gut and skin are subject to tissue breakdown...
by Jovana Drinjakovic | Apr 4, 2019
As the most common fatal genetic disorder, cystic fibrosis (CF) has been at the forefront of genetic research since the gene responsible for it was discovered 40 years ago. But with more than 300 known disease-causing mutations, or variants of the CF gene, disease...
by Stacey Johnson | Dec 21, 2018
Ain’t science grand? It gave us antibiotics and penicillin, the law of universal gravitation, the theory of special relativity and the Big Bang, and it even explains why east coast NFL teams do poorly in night games (hint: it’s due to circadian rhythms). Just in time...
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