January 2016 E-news
Welcome to the E-newsletter of the Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures January, 2016! Below are a few articles that caught our eye this month. Enjoy. [...]
Former ‘Star Trek’ actor, LeVar Burton, to headline 2016 Nebraska Science Festival
Literacy advocate to present keynote on merging technology, storytelling, science fiction Emmy-award winning actor LeVar Burton has shown that he can do it [...]
Nebraska Science Festival 2016
The dates have been set for the 2016 Nebraska Science Festival, following a 2015 festival that organizers called a great success. The 2016 Science Festival [...]
December 2015 E-news
Harold W. Andersen, a long-ago Omaha paperboy who rose from carrier to reporter to publisher of one of the nation's largest employee-owned newspapers, has died [...]
Winter 2015 Newsletter
Long-time Nebraska Coalition for Lifesaving Cures board member, Fred Simon, passed away on Sept. 28. Simon was the executive vice president of Omaha Steaks, a [...]
November 2015 E-news
The Association of Fundraising Professionals Nebraska Chapter honored Dick Holland, NCLC board chairman, with its Lifetime Achievement Award in November.
October 2015 E-news
Age-related macular degeneration could be treated by transplanting photoreceptors produced by the directed differentiation of stem cells... - Medical Press
September 2015 E-news
Asterias Biotherapeutics Inc said initial data from a small study showed that its lead stem cell therapy could improve mobility in patients paralyzed by a [...]
Human Embryo Editing as a Path to Genomic Engineering
One must be impressed by the phenomenal rate at which advances in medicine and the life sciences take place. It was only a few years [...]
August 2015 E-news
Just one year ago, Facebook feeds were awash with videos and photos of people pouring buckets of cold water on their heads all in the name of [...]