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The Ontario Institute for Regenerative Medicine (OIRM) is pleased to announce a new agreement with Stem Cells Australia. This is a significant step forward in developing international relationships that will advance the development of stem cell therapies in Ontario and Australia.

The claim that Chinese scientists have performed gene editing of human embryos as a part of in vitro fertilization, resulting in the birth of two babies, is unverified, was not subject to scientific scrutiny and has triggered condemnation from the Chinese scientific community for proceeding with such unproven experimentation without appropriate ethical approval.

Stem Cells Australia will receive additional funding from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council to keep Australian science at the forefront of stem cell medicine internationally. This support will allow collaborative stem cell research across more than a dozen Australian universities and medical institutes to extend our fundamental understanding of stem cell science, ultimately leading to new ways to diagnose, understand and treat disease.

Published in Nature Biotechnology today, findings from an international consortium of scientists has produced an interactive map that displays where microRNAs are expressed and how they might work within the body.

Leading Australian developmental biologist and SCA member Professor Richard Harvey this week joins scientific luminaries such as Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Howard Florey and Stephen Hawking as a Fellow of the Royal Society, the oldest continuously operating academy of science in the world.