Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

In 1998, I did my Leaving. For those not from Ireland, you think ah OK, he left home and went away. But if you are from Ireland, you know exactly what I mean. It doesn’t mean I left home, it means I sat my leaving certificate examinations, exams that mark the end of secondary school Read More …

Friday, August 9th, 2019. This date has been etched on my calendar since early June. For many of you, this is just a regular Friday in August, the end of a working week and the start of the weekend, nothing overly special about it. But as a Liverpool FC fan, this date represents the end Read More …

Well hello there, did you miss me. No, I didn’t get stuck on a roundabout for days, preventing me from writing my next blog. I was simply enjoying the Montreal sunshine and those umbrella-containing beverages. Whoever came up with the idea of an umbrella in a drink is a genius. The umbrella shades the drink, keeping Read More …

As an Irishman, I am well versed in roundabouts, we love them. Entering the roundabout, going around it and then hoping to get off it when its your exit. If you don’t exit, you just keep going round and around and around, well you get the drift. It reminds me of that great scene in Read More …

In the immortal words of Ron Burgundy “Its so hot… milk was a bad choice”. Man, it is a scorcher today, with a humidex of really humid, now I know how cells feel like living in an incubator. But when its hot, what better way to cool down then with an ice cold beverage (I Read More …

Good morning and how is everyone doing, enjoying that first cup of tea or coffee of the morning I hope. Myself, I am a tea person, always have been, my Irish nature, we drink it by the liter. Can’t beat a good of tea in the morning to revive oneself. And if it’s the afternoon Read More …

Good morning and happy Monday, no, not feeling it. Yes, I agree, I hate Mondays too. I never fully understood why the day existed except to be worse then Tuesday, and don’t even get me started on Wednesdays. Anyway, I digress, I trust everyone had a lovely weekend, here in Montreal the sun was shining, Read More …

Hello there, Is anyone out there, can you hear me, are you still there. Oh, good you are there, hello. I have to start with a Mea Culpa, for all those wondering where Tom was, its been 3 months why isn’t he writing a new post, has he forgotten about us, well no I didn’t and I Read More …

Hello again, Three weeks have now passed since my first blog, and the response has been overwhelming, who knew this kid with a love of dinosaurs could become an internet blogger. Your encouragement to make my t-Rex has motivated me to do just that, so let’s see how it all goes. Also fun fact, the Read More …

Hello SGC members and to the millions of scientific readers across the globe, My name is Thomas Durcan, and I am an assistant professor at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI) and McGill University, where I also lead the SGC tissue platform in Montreal. You can call me the stem cell guy, as everything I and my Read More …