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Will stem cells eventually outperform pharmaceuticals or will they come to...
You don’t have to follow pharmaceutical industry news to know that this summer has been a disappointing one for Alzheimer’s research. Many major media outlets covered the failure of potential...
View ArticleRegenerative Medicine Deal Review: December
. Welcome to your Regenerative Medicine Deal Review for the month of December. Toronto-based Stem Cell Therapeutics successfully executed on a financing of $33 million, while Pluristem announces it is...
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Cell lines, patient samples, and cultures – oh my!
> The thing that is so intriguing about cancer stem cells (CSCs), from a cancer researcher’s perspective, is their powerful potential as therapeutic targets. While CSCs can create or regenerate...
View ArticleRight Turn: Prof. Molly Shoichet shares her views on commercialization
. Last November, I wrote about CCRM’s new Regenerative Medicine Video Network and featured an original video with Dr. Stephen Minger, Chief Scientist, Cellular Sciences GE Healthcare Life Sciences in...
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Highlights from The Business of Regenerative Medicine Course
. The Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) just finished hosting the 7th annual Business of Regenerative Medicine course here in Toronto, which saw many notable figures in the...
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Avoiding ‘wrinkles in time’: Using tissue engineered grafts to model skin aging
. This is not a blog about cosmology, nor the space-time continuum or our place in the universe. As much as I love these deep topics, today I’d like to discuss something, quite literally, more...
View ArticleRight Turn: Back to school and being brilliant
. It’s September. I can almost hear the school bells ringing. I can definitely feel excitement in the air. For many, back to school isn’t something to dread: just the opposite; it’s something to get...
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An interview with bioengineering pioneer Kevin Healy
In the fourth in her series on “What drives research in the field of biomaterials?” blogger Hamideh Emrani interviews Professor Kevin E. Healy at the University of California, Berkeley. You can catch...
View ArticleRight Turn: Exciting progress in treating Cystic Fibrosis
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...
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Stem cells’ role in better understanding schizophrenia
Parmin Sedigh is a 16-year-old who is passionate about stem cells, developmental biology, and science communication. She shares her love for the field by writing easy-to-understand articles on Medium...
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