Biggest Stem Cell News of the Year Poll
What is the biggest Stem Cell News of the Year? 2011 was a busy year for stem cell and regenerative medicine news. Take our Poll! Weigh in with comments to please. You may choose more than one answer.
Year: 2011
Did Stem Cells Ruin Rick Perry’s Chances to Be President?
Earlier this year we found out that Texas Governor and GOP Presidential hopeful, Rick Perry, had received a stem cell transplant. You can read more about this here. The details of Perry’s transplant remain somewhat obscure, but as best as we can tell he received the transplant here in the U.S., most likely in Houston, …
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Stem Cell Awards for 2011
Last year around this time I presented my first stem cell awards of the year, in that case for 2010. You can see whom I thought deserved awards here. Now it is time for our 2011 stem cell awards. These awards reflect my opinions and those not mentioned will hopefully forgive me as there is …
The perfect storm in Fall 2012 that may kill stem cell research
A year from now will I still be conducted federally funded research on human ES cells? What about the hundreds of other professors in the U.S. and their thousands of employees? It is not unreasonable at this point to forecast a perfect storm in Fall 2012 that may kill elements of stem cell research that …
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Stem cell predictions for 2012: Science, CIRM, ACT, trends
Each year at this time I start thinking about what the next year will bring for the stem cell field and make predictions. This year is no different and I’ve been pondering what 2012 has in store for us. You can read my predictions for 2011 here and see how I fared. Not too bad, but overly optimistic …
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Ian Wilmut, Dolly’s dad, says dump hESC? What does this mean?
Sometimes a top scientist makes news with a quote on research and that happened with Ian Wilmut recently on stem cells. Move away from research on human ES cells (hESC) in favor of very new and still largely unclear trans-differentiation technology? I say, no way. But, Bradley Fikes of the North County Times has reported …
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My 2 years with cancer and what I learned from Steve Jobs
Exactly two years ago today, I was lying in a hospital bed literally across the street from lab here at UC Davis. It seems unreal in a way, but painfully real it was and still is. On November 30, 2009, I had surgery for prostate cancer. Two years ago, things seemed pretty bleak. Now on …
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Who’s who in iPS cell field: update
Spring End Nov. 2011 Here is an updated–Who’s who in the iPS cell field? …
To the Republican Party: where’s the beef?
The Republican Party is a shadow of its former self. It seems to have lost touch with reality, abandoned real leaders, and given up on facts. One of the most damaging trends for the Republican Party has been their lack of presidential candidates who have gravitas, meaning they can be taken seriously as national leaders. …
Is a fertilized egg a Californian? Personhood movement brings battle to California
Remember those folks who were pushing an amendment in Mississippi that would have defined the one cell fertilized egg as a full blown person with all the same rights as a living, breathing, thinking Mississippian? Now the new battlefront for their movement is California. They want to get an initiative on the ballot to make …
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