I’m attending the first scientific conference of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) entitled "Stem Cell Research: Charting New Directions for California"…in my bathrobe, slippers and  bed-head. That’s because it’s a webcast on www.baybio.org. It’s also free. The conference is sold-out for the scientists, but BayBio–an organization with which I work–is hosting a webcast. I found out last minute. ...

June Chan, Director of International Programs, is so busy zipping back and forth to China representing the ACS that I’ve been able to get her to write for for FISpace only once. So I bribed her with lunch the other day and turned on the recorder to capture the following conversation about what she and the Society are working on ...

Amazingly one of the first benefits of nanotechnology may be really, really sensitive detectors of cancer. Harvard University researchers have found that molecular markers indicating the presence of cancer in the body are readily detected in blood scanned by special arrays of silicon nanowires — even when these cancer markers constitute only one hundred-billionth of the protein present in a ...

Wow! Yesterday I talked with Letitia Thompson of Mid-South Division about Project COMMAND, an electronic health record system for which Letitia and Mid-South won the Futuring and Innovation Center’s first Innovation Award. Great project to configure free software for small physician practices (small practices, not small docs) that helps them track the cancer prevention, detection, and treatment  status of patients. ...