Month: October 2013

Flash contest: win free ticket to see Yamanaka & friends in SFO

On November 15th the 2013 World Alliance Forum “Future of Stem Cells” will be held in San Francisco. It looks to be an awesome meeting. The lineup of speakers is frankly stunning and in part the meeting is to congratulate Shinya Yamanaka on winning the Nobel Prize. It is a once in a lifetime kind of event. I …

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World Alliance Forum “Future of Stem Cells” features Shinya Yamanaka

If there was one stem cell meeting I would absolutely not want to miss next month in November if at all possible, it is the 2013 World Alliance Forum “Future of Stem Cells” in San Francisco. Are you going? Win free tickets to this meeting here! Unfortunately I have a conflict so I will this …

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TGIF: 1,000th Blog Post

Yesterday I published a post that was important for two reasons. First it announced the 12 finalists for the Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013 Award. Second, it was the 1,000th post on this blog. How the heck did that happen? Cheers! Happy Friday!  

USA v Regenerative Sciences Word Clouds are Illuminating

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What can clouds tell us about a stem cell legal court case strategy such as USA v. Regenerative Sciences? It turns out, quite a lot. In about a week a Federal Appeals Court Case will begin to review the ruling in the USA v Regenerative Sciences that favored the FDA. This is arguably one of …

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Dozen Finalists for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013

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The voting is over and we have our top 12 finalists for the 2013 Stem Cell Person of the Year Award. You can see the final votes results below. It’s definitely an intriguing list that reflects the range of important areas in the field today. I can say without any hesitation that all 12 of …

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CIRM President Trounson To Leave the Agency

Alan Trounson, President of CIRM and CIRM itself both announced late this afternoon that Trounson will be leaving the California Stem Cell Agency. Trounson is leaving CIRM to spend more time with his family, who are literally located around the world in Australia.  In an email to the CIRM community, Trounson said: “I need to …

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Nicholas Wade of the New York Times again Misses the Stem Cell Boat

In late 2010, Nicholas Wade, then a frequent science writer for the New York Times, wrote a frankly nasty piece on the stem cell field that was insulting and oversimplistic. Now today we have yet another piece in the NYT by Wade on stem cells, and he mostly makes a mess of it again, with …

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Mesoblast (MSB) buys Osiris (OSIR) stem cell unit

The Australian stem cell biotech Mesoblast (MSB) has reportedly reached a deal with the American stem cell biotech Osiris (OSIR) to buy Osiris’ mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) unit. This is a big development in the MSC field. Osiris and Mesoblast are two major players in this particular subfield of the stem cell world so this deal, …

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