What if humans can have kids without directly getting pregnant at all? Surrogacy may come to mind, but what if children can be produced without humans at all? A reproductive clinic would just use our cells. Getting even further into what feels like the sci-fi realm, what if you don’t even need regular sperm and […]
I do yearly predictions for the stem cell and regenerative medicine field. Today’s post discusses my 2026 predictions. You can also see my 2025 stem cell predictions and their grades. It was one of the most accurate years. Now, there’s still a lot swirling around in the regenerative medicine field, the FDA, RFK Jr., politics,
The stem cell niche is one of my favorite areas of research that I don’t actually work on directly. At least my lab hasn’t studied it much so far. My sense is that many scientists have favorite areas of research that they don’t actually study themselves. Do you have an area of research that particularly
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Toward the end of each year I make predictions for the stem cell and regenerative medicine field for the coming year. I’ve been doing this in some form for more than a dozen years. In today’s post I grade my 2025 predictions for the regenerative arena. Overall, the crystal ball didn’t disappoint even if the
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To my knowledge, The Niche’s The Screamers award is the only science hype award out there. There were many candidates this year, but one stood above the rest for extraordinary hype in science. Colossal Biosciences wins 2025 The Screamers science hype award Colossal Biosciences gets the nod because of their remarkable hype about supposedly de-extincting
Sometimes it feels like the stem cell and broader regenerative medicine field face an unending stream of challenges and difficult news, but there is also stem cell good news out there. I mean upbeat developments in the broader regenerative medicine space. That’s the focus of today’s post as the year wraps up with the top
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Even during the holidays, I keep looking over all the latest research and news on regenerative medicine, including recently related to a firm called Unlimited Bio. The umbrella term “regenerative medicine” includes gene therapies and gene editing. The field is seeing non-traditional trials of regenerative medicine-related technologies including genetic approaches for enhancement. Sometimes the same
State attorneys general have done a good job addressing the stem cell clinic problem locally. They’ve increasingly taken action on unproven stem cells and related firms. In some ways, they’ve been more effective than the feds. The AG successes have been particularly important given the uneven activity from the FDA and FTC. Iowa AG wins
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I had expected that there would be criminal charges related to stem cell clinics this year, but admittedly I didn’t see it coming in Utah. This was one of my 25 stem cell predictions for 2025. The stem cell clinic world has so much that is problematic. Where does something cross the line from perhaps
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When I was talking with my mom the other day, she asked me about how things are going with stem cells for vision loss. Fortunately, her vision remains fine, but we both know people dealing with macular degeneration. Fortunately, there’s some more hopeful news in this space so let’s start there. Then we’ll get to