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Seeing isn’t always believing: a cautionary tale on GFP transfer when trying to restore vision

Valerie-Wallace

By Samantha Yammine When our TV stops working, it’s usually because one of the wires has come unplugged. We begrudgingly huff and puff over to the back of the TV, track down the loose culprit, plug it back in, and boom: back to Netflix. If you multiply all those wires in the back of your …

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Samantha Yammine: Multiple filters for stem cell research at Canadian stem cell conference

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By Samantha Yammine, PhD Candidate in Derek van der Kooy’s lab at the University of Toronto. See tweets live from #TMM2016 via @SamanthaZY here. Last week, 430 Canadian scientists, trainees, industry professionals, science communicators and international guests gathered in the picturesque ski town of Whistler, British Columbia for the annual Till & McCulloch meeting (TMM). …

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Stem Cell News Briefs: Anversa, Japan Regs, Ocata Suit, More

Timothy-J.-Kieffer

It’s been a busy few weeks for the stem cell field. Below are some news briefs on developments. RetractionWatch reports that Piero Anversa is leaving Harvard/Brigham and Women’s Hospital after an investigation and dismissed lawsuit he filed against the institution. All still quiet on the STAP cell front at the same institutions. There’s some more …

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Super stem cells meetings, & courses remaining in 2015

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There are a whole bunch of wonderful stem cell meetings, conferences, and courses remaining in the second half of 2015. If you are organizing (or just know of) another one and don’t see it listed here please let me know and I’ll add it in. I’m starting to collect those for 2016 as well so …

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Silva Comments on MBD3/NuRD Debate with Jacob Hanna

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What’s the deal with the tension between José Silva and Jacob Hanna over pluripotency? Researchers probing how to reprogram cells into powerful stem cells (induced pluripotent stem cells or IPSCs) and what the molecular mechanisms are behind this process have become entangled in a conflict. Of course over the years scientists including stem cell scientists have …

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Many great remaining stem cell meetings in 2014

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2014 Stem Cell Meetings, Conferences, and Courses still to come before year’s end. NYSCF NY Stem Cell Foundation 9th Annual Meeting, NYC, NY Oct 14-15. Till & McCulloch Meetings, Ottowa, Canada, Oct. 27-29. Cellular Therapies Manufacturing & Clinical Trials in Canada Workshop, Ottawa, ON Canada, October 29-30, 2014. World Alliance Forum 2014 on Impact of Regenerative …

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