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Weekly reads: reprogramming hearing loss, heart disease, eye drops, sickle cell

April 29, 2023 / By / Leave a Comment
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It’s mostly been a week of good and encouraging news in the regenerative medicine space including with gene therapies maybe with the exception of some eye drops warning (more below). There’s realistic hope for an approved sickle cell disease soon. I also see some long-term positive news on hearing loss research. Hematopoietic stem cell transplant …

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Heart stem cells trial mostly disappoints but is oversold

March 13, 2023 / By / 6 Comments
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Are there endogenous adult heart stem cells that are useful in cardiac disease or can stem cell infusions help ailing hearts? As to the first question, the adult heart does not appear to have meaningful numbers of true stem cells. Further, testing the idea of infusions of stem cells for heart disease has so far been giving …

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Stem cell therapy for heart disease: what you need to know

April 29, 2022 / By / 1 Comment
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How much promise is there today for stem cell therapy for heart disease? Where do things stand with the clinical research? Patients regularly ask me these kinds of questions. The goal of today’s post is to update you on where things stand. What’s in this post Stem Cell Therapy | Clinical Trials | Delivery of …

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Recommended reads: pig heart transplant, lasers, $11K pub fee

January 15, 2022 / By / 4 Comments
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The fact that a person for the first time has received a heart transplant from a pig and it was a genetically modified pig made big news this week. Organ transplant waiting lists are a huge problem so if this kind of approach can be proven to be safe and effective, it would be a …

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Recommended reads: a tale of human tails, heart reprogramming, pericytes, microglia

August 18, 2022 / By / Leave a Comment
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A piece on human tails and how we lost them caught my eye so I’ll start my weekly reads with that. This week I had the fewest Zoom meetings in ages, which allowed me to get more work done in my own lab and more reading. How about that? I even had some in-person meetings …

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Recommended reads: stem cells on the brain, heart, COVID

February 21, 2021 / By / Leave a Comment
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There are weeks when it seems like papers on stem cells keep popping up. It can be a challenge to keep up with reading all the papers you want to read. Other times it is cell biology news that keeps breaking. The big news of the past week or so was unfortunately the concerning development …

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Weekend reads include stem cell pubs, cancer link to heart disease, CRISPR babies & of course emu oil

February 1, 2021 / By / Leave a Comment
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Here in the U.S. we just had our big Thanksgiving holiday, but science goes, stem cells keep growing and needing attention, and it’s another weekend chance to catch up on our paper reading. Here’s this weekend edition of recommended reads including news items and pubs. From Cell Stem Cell: Single-Cell Transcriptome Analysis of Uniparental Embryos Reveals …

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Call for 31 Anversa retractions by Harvard; heart stem cell concept broken?

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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In a stunner, Harvard and Brigham & Women’s Hospital reportedly have jointly called for the retraction of 31 papers on heart stem cell research authored by embattled heart stem cell researcher Piero Anversa. The scoop on this by STAT/Retraction Watch written by Ivan Oransky and Adam Marcus gives further details on this mess and past …

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Japan conditionally approves new IPS cell-based heart study

February 1, 2021 / By / 5 Comments
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Where do things stand with IPS cell translational research? The newest development is that regulators in Japan just have given conditional approval to an Osaka University team to an induced pluripotent stem (IPS) cell-based study for ischemic heart disease. For years IPS cell-based products have been on-again off-again in active clinical study for macular degeneration, work …

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