Last week one of the most popular stories was about a preprint from a mammoth de-extinction research group led by George Church having made elephant stem cells. I finally got a chance to look carefully at their preprint. Elephant stem cells preprint and mammoth de-extinction The elephant stem cells preprint has solid data. It looks like […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic is tearing through the country right as we are starting into the holiday season, but the wheels of science including cell biology keep going and we keep reading all the great work. What news or papers caught your eye? Here are some of the things I have on my list of reading.
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Cell biology research never ceases to surprise with its innovations. Here are four recent papers that strike me as interesting. YAP1 Regulates OCT4 Activity and SOX2 Expression to Facilitate Self-Renewal and Vascular Mimicry of Stem-Like Cells. Stem Cells. Namrata Bora-Singhal, Jonathan Nguyen, Courtney Schaal, Deepak Perumal, Sandeep Singh, Domenico Coppola and Srikumar Chellappan. High burden and pervasive
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Today’s post lists the best stem cell blogs and more generally the top biology blogs as well as websites. Making lists of “the best” of anything is fun yet it can be tricky. However, I feel that it can also serve a purpose as a resource. You might also enjoy these other “top” lists I’ve
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Today’s post lists the best stem cell blogs and more generally the top biology blogs as well as websites. Making lists of “the best” of anything is fun yet tricky. However, I feel that it can also serve a purpose as a resource. You might also enjoy these other “top” lists I’ve done including List of
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After a bit of a hiatus in 2024, our list of regenerative medicine and stem cell meetings returns for 2025. I’m noticing a lot of great stem cell meetings already scheduled for 2025. With the pandemic being less of an ever-present thing, most meetings are now only in-person these days. In a way, the hybrid
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As we look to 2025, what are the best regenerative medicine and stem cell journals? Is there a stem cell journal list out there? I seem to have the only comprehensive list. Who better than a stem cell biologist to put together this kind of list? Why is this important? Scientists need to know what
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How are things going with regenerative medicine and stem cells in Japan? It’s still an exciting time there, but I’ve noted a sense that it is a time of transition too in some ways. For example, government funding is perhaps less certain than in the past. Let’s start with a few articles on how the
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Can you learn important things about stem cells on Reddit? Yes, you can, but it’s a wild experience at times. Researchers may often think about stem cells through the lens of traditional routes of communication like academic journals, but laypeople turn elsewhere to learn about regenerative medicine. This includes digging into stem cells on Reddit.
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There’s a fascinating type of olfactory cell. These so-called tuft cells have unusual characteristics, especially for nose cells. I had never heard of them before until reading a new article. The inside of the nose may not seem like a very attractive place but there are cool “nose stem cells” in there. More broadly, there
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