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Weekly reads: BioViva & life-extension clinic, RMATs, universal cells

May 14, 2023 / By / 2 Comments
BioViva CEO Liz Parrish in YouTube video.

I’ve written before about Liz Parrish and her life-extension firm BioViva. Now they appear to have connections with another entity called Integrated Health Systems or IHS, according to a new Wired article. Some of what is going on with IHS and maybe BioViva in Mexico seems extremely risky to me. BioViva, Parrish, and Integrated Health Systems The …

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Clade Therapeutics pursues universal cells for cancer therapy

October 9, 2022 / By / 2 Comments
Chad-Cowan CRISPR Therapeutics

Clade  Therapeutics has been pursuing the idea of using gene-editing to make universally compatible cells. The potential here is big. What if you could make cloaked stem cells that could be used to produce cellular therapies that could be given to most patients without fear of immune rejection? Clade Therapeutics Boston Business Journal covers the …

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Weekly reads: bat stem cells & viruses, Lineage Cell, He Jiankui visa

February 25, 2023 / By / Leave a Comment
bat stem cells, stem cells

Occasionally when I write a post there is an angry reaction to it in the blog comments, which was the case for my recent fact-check of the LifeWave X39 patches.  As you can see in that post, I didn’t find convincing data to either back up the claimed stem cell connection. In my opinion, there …

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Recommended reads: Bee brain, COVID, from Russia with stem cells, pubs

June 7, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment
Reprogramming-roadmap-reveals-route-to-human-induced-trophoblast-stem-cells

Reading to them was one of my favorite things to do with my kids when they were little, but it’s a long way from Goodnight Moon to this week’s list of recommended reads, although “bee brain” may have got their attention. Please take a minute to complete our The Niche reader survey for a chance …

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Recommended regenerative medicine reads plus COVID-19 stem cell hype

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
Universal-Cells

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic there are still some research things we can do including data analysis as well as reading new papers and media articles on science, including regenerative medicine. If the weather’s good and you have wi-fi (or you print articles still on paper) you can even do this out in the fresh air …

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Quick Q&A with ViaCyte CEO on CRISPR-stem cell work

February 1, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
VC-01-post-implant-final1-e1503703572933, viacyte

We heard this week about the encouraging news of a new CRISPR-stem cell collaboration between stem cell biotech ViaCyte and CRISPR Therapeutics. The goal of the team is to make genetically engineered pancreatic derivatives from stem cells that would have a unique immune stealthiness. If such an approach was successful, patients would not need to …

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