I have dreamt my entire life about inventing something that the world couldn’t resist buying. It would make me wealthy beyond belief. I could provide all the creature comforts for my family and friends. I would witness their stress-free lives and revel in my accomplishment. Let’s call it constructive selfishness. I felt I was being [...]

Isolation of B cells is the beginning of a technology similar to the military’s smart bombs. To actually isolate these powerful auto-immune protectors is a tool that will eventually result in endless victories against disease. Think of this procedure as being a concentration of light in the form of a laser and signalling out selective [...]

With the utilization of stem cell culture, many barriers are falling down in our march to cure cancer and many other diseases. How great is it to be living in a time when such tools are available for the stupendous minds of medical science to put to use. It parallels the advent of gun powder [...]

If you have ever experienced an onslaught of millions of little brown ants, listen up. This is the way I, in my amateurish way, envision the work of the mesenchymal stem cells. I picture endless numbers of them carrying microscopic bits of tissue to a site that is in need of repair. Just like the [...]