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Stem Cell Research

Can We Preserve Fertility In Male Cancer Patients?

CP | Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.01.2013 | Canada Living
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TORONTO - Scientists have long been searching for a way to preserve fertility in young boys who undergo cancer treatments and may be unable to father ...

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Children's Hearing Loss Potentially Helped By Stem Cells From Cord Blood

CP | Sheryl Ubelacker, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.11.2012 | Canada Living
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TORONTO - Researchers have been given the go-ahead to test stem cells from cord blood with the ultimate goal of reversing hearing loss in infants and ...

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Stem Cell Research Won't Lead to Cloned Monsters. Seriously.

Timothy Caulfield | Posted 02.12.2012 | Canada
Read More: Assisted Reproduction Technology, Stem Cell Research, Cloning, Science Policy, Canada News
Timothy Caulfield

Time magazine recently declared a cloning technique used for stem cell research to be the number one medical breakthrough of 2011. The research was done in New York. And that's a good thing. If it were done in Canada, the researchers would be criminals. They could even be put in jail.

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Do Stem Cells Really Offer a Miracle Cure?

Timothy Caulfield | Posted 01.24.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Stem Cell Therapy, Stem Cell Research, Bartolo Colon, Stem Cell, Geron, Rick Perry, Peyton Manning, Canada Business News
Timothy Caulfield

Quarterback Peyton Manning has used it. So has New York Yankee pitcher Bartolo Colon. Ditto Texas Governor and presidential hopeful Rick Perry. What is this miracle cure, this elixir of life? Stem cell therapy. But does it actually work?

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Lunch With... Dr. Benjamin Neel, Director of the Ontario Cancer Institute

Mary Warner | Posted 09.07.2011 | Canada
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Mary Warner

The company: Dr. Benjamin Neel is the director of the Ontario Cancer Institute at the University Health Network and Princess Margaret Hospital. He has...

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