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What you need to know about Martin Makary and planning for the Trump 2.0 FDA

Martin Makary, Trump FDA

How might Trump’s nominee to lead the FDA, Martin Makary, change the agency? Should we be worried or hopeful? I’ve been closely following the FDA and its commissioners ever since I started The Niche in 2010. I’ve been particularly interested in how these leaders impacted FDA actions on cell and gene therapies. How might Makaray […]

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Weekly reads: GIOSTAR stem cell clinic IND, cadaver marrow, NIH under Trump 2.0, tweets from a stem cell

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What happens if unproven stem cell clinic firms like GIOSTAR start getting okays from the FDA to do clinical trials? On the one hand, it could reflect a positive trend of stem cell clinic firms working with the FDA and toward compliance. Having more robust data. However, I worry about some of these types of

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Weekly reads: cancer stem cells, encouraging findings, Trump & NIH, proteomics

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Cancer stem cells are stem cell-like cells in many tumors that are key contributors to the ability of tumors to persist and recur after treatment. For those reasons, they are also thought to be major targets, including of emerging therapies. Data also suggest that some therapies may create new types of cancer stem cells leading

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Recommended reads: gov scientists fear Trump 2nd term, MYCT1 in HSCs, in vivo editing

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I’ve only met one scientist who was openly a Trump fan, but I’m sure there are more out there. Still, it seems most scientists are no fans of the former president. A new WaPo piece highlights how federal scientists are worrying about a possible second term for the former president. Government scientists & a second

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Trump, GOP hypocrisy on Regeneron COVID-19 fetal, stem cell work

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Are Trump and the Republican Party showing major hypocrisy over Trump’s use of experimental COVID-19 therapies in part developed by Regeneron using embryonic and fetal cells? The Internet is kind of blowing up over this. Trump’s collision with stem cells For example, people are directly confronting Trump on Twitter over his recent all caps tweet

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Rudy Giuliani now plugging unproven stem cells for COVID19: is Trump next?

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Things are getting worse with the COVID19 pandemic and in parallel there is increasing hype including from clinics that somehow stem cells or similar products could help with the latest (and most worrisome) development being a bombshell tweet from Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani. The former mayor of New York and Trump frontman just tweeted this

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On President’s Day: Dealing with Reality Trump is Threat to Science & Democracy

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On President’s Day, let’s think about our country’s leader, Donald Trump. Do we have to? Yeah, sometimes we do. For the first time in my lifetime, I see the President of the United States as a serious threat to overall science & to our country’s democracy. Trump is not well-acquainted with fact-based reality and that’s

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