Lisa Ray, Stem Cell City, and stem cell resources across the globe

The McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine has launched a new effort they call “Stem Cell City”. As part of the launch they have enlisted the help of Lisa Ray, a Canadian Actress/Model, who was treated for Multiple Myeloma in 2009 using a stem cell transplant. Lisa Ray has a video that is quite compelling (see …

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Family Research Council angrily calls NSF ignorant about stem cells: reality check!

The ultra right-wing Family Research Council (FRC), a non-scientific organization, today issued a press release slamming the National Science Foundation (NSF), one of the premier scientific organizations in the world over their supposed ignorance about stem cells. What sparked the FRC’s ire was a press release from NSF that discussed a paper in Cell that …

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President Romney and stem cells: the road to disaster

Tonight the Republican candidates for President of the United States will face off in their first fully-attended debate. The frontrunner by far to win the Republican nomination and face President Obama in the Fall of 2012 is Mitt Romney. Although that is not saying a whole lot given the weakness of the Republican group of …

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Justin Beiber or Einstein or you? Who gets cloned first?

Human cloning is coming. Maybe not to a Walmart near you, but it is coming. And by human cloning, I mean reproductive cloning, not therapeutic cloning which is a totally different cup of tea. The cloning I’m talking about is where you duplicate a human being. Despite efforts to prevent human cloning, such as a …

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iPS cell predictions for the next year: yours and mine (take the poll)

I think the iPS cell field is at a crossroads. The next year will be critical for determining the direction for the field. iPS cells have been around almost half as long as human ES cells, so maybe it is no longer appropriate to call the iPS cell field “new”, even though to me it …

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No longer lost in translation: stem cells in 9 languages and counting

Just an update on our educational outreach program, SCOPE, where we are providing key information about stem cells in as many languages as possible. If you look at the various pages at the top of this website, you will see “What are stem cells?” in many different languages. In fact, we are now up to …

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Right wing chicken myths about stem cells: why it will come back to bite them

Why do right-wing folks including otherwise “moderate” Republicans seemingly hate stem cells so much? Why do they spread so many myths? These anti-stem folks are, despite some Democrats arguments to the contrary, human beings after all. What this means is that they and their loved ones get sick, injured, and die prematurely just like the …

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