Tag Archives: stem cell

STEMCELL Technologies is one of Canada’s leading providers of cell culture media for research purposes, including reagents, recombinant cytokines and other tools for the maintenance of cell cultures, as well as a number of tissue and stem cell types.

Dr. Alli Murugesan applied a game-changing commercialization strategy to bypass academic barriers & won the Mitacs Global Impact Entrepreneur Award.

In 1992, a Canadian scientist, Dr. Samuel Weiss, from the University of Calgary, discovered neural stem cells in the adult brain.

Biotron is a unique facility where scientists make important connections as they investigate the mechanisms of global environmental transformation.

Innovative Canadian researchers are advancing the young field of gene therapy and it will make recovery from a stroke possible.

Through gene therapy, scientists in Alberta are offering a glimpse of hope to sufferers of a rare retinal disease in the near future.

Altering the surface properties of polymer labware, manufacturers are improving the quality of test results while increasing value of products they create.

A paper just published in Nature Biotechnology outlines a pioneering method of screening a person’s diverse set of  antibodies for rapid therapeutic discovery.

Seventeen-year-old Miranda Li's passion for stem cell research led her to work on an innovative project about characterizing suicide genes.

BC has no shortage of research institutions to draw innovation from, which gives rise to a lot of successful small and medium-sized biotech companies