What is a stem cell niche? It’s the home of stem cells.
The stem cell niche is a fascinating environment. It has many constituents that impact stem cell behavior and even eventual stem cell transplant functions.
In today’s weekly reads, we’ll start with the niche as there have been several interesting papers on this topic.
The niche consists of other cells, growth factors, extracellular matrix, fluid, and even physical elements like oxygen tension and pressure. Together this home tells stem cells to stay stem cells. Alternatively, the niche can also play a role in differentiation with proper signaling, and depending on the spatial position of the stem cells. Of course, this blog is also named after the niche.
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Dear Admin:
Re: Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article
Regurgitative AI programs like ChatGPT are going to restore the need for real expert consultants who saw their employment demise because of the emergence of search engines like Google making so much quality data keyboard-available. Now, these new AI programs are fabricating vast quantities of jumbled and garbled misinformation that can be debunked the fastest by real experts. After investigating for myself, it was hilarious to read the kind of rubbish that ChatGPT fabricated about my areas of biomedical expertise, while often apologizing for its own ignorance or likely ineptness (Always being right about that!). The OpenAI developers introduced ChatGPT well before it was close to being ready for prime time. I hope companies that are investing billions in ChatGPT are doing so to mothball it, and not spread its toxic effects further, so that we can get back to the much more easily negotiated and managed misinformation of non-generative search engines.
James @ Asymmetrex®