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Refreshing WSJ piece on longevity ‘guru’ David SinclairI’ve written before about concerns related to longevity research hype from Harvard professor David Sinclair. The media often eats up statements about longevity from Sinclair and a few other scientists in that space. There is also endless coverage of the latest exploits of wealthy health influencer Bryan Johnson. For that…
Weekly reads: aging cells, scientists relying on ChatGPT, anemone stem cells
Do our aging cells necessitate that we age overall as people? Flipping it around, if we can stop or reverse …
Positive regenerative medicine story of the year: diabetes & sickle cell were tops
What was the biggest upbeat regenerative medicine story of 2024? I have my own favorites but decided to run a …
FDA warns Frontier Biologics as part of its more active trend
The FDA recently warned Frontier Biologics, LLC, a Texas perinatal tissue manufacturer firm. Tallying the many FDA biologics warnings in …
Weekly reads: Scott Gottlieb v. RFK Jr., DNA typewriters, Arnold Caplan
Remember former Trump’s FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb? Gottlieb’s back in the news in an interesting way related to the upcoming …
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