Want to hear the latest on stem cells?Check out this awesome stem cell podcast series by Drs. Christopher Fasano and Yosif Ganat. These guys deserve some kind of award for this effort. You can listen to their interview with me posted yesterday where we dish on STAP stem cells, blogging, and more including two crazy stories I have to […]
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I’ve been working on a stem cell outreach program for education (SCOPE) the last couple years. The mission of SCOPE is “stem cells not lost in translation”. What is SCOPE? I’ve got a white paper up on key facts and considerations for stem cells in dozens of languages. More than 120,000 people across the globe
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¿Qué son las células madre? What does this mean? What are stem cells is ‘¿Qué son las células madre?’ in Spanish (2024 update: note that this post is part of our stem cells not lost in translation project: please see here for 34 other languages. This post also addresses another common question, “what are stem
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Celulas Madres: Una Guia para el Conocedor es un Nuevo excitante libro que lleva a el lector adentro del mundo de celulas madres guiado por el internacionalmente experto en celulas madres el Dr. Paul Knoepfler. Celulas madres estan catalizando una revolucion en la medicina. El libro tambien destaca el caliente y excitante debate en el
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I highly recommend that you guys check out the new blog by my friend, Keri Kimler. Keri is an awesome resource about stem cell research and her blog is not surprisingly, a wonderful source of information too. You can see Keri in this video from the World Stem Cell Summit: Keri is Vice Chair of
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I love readers’ comments on my blog, but in addition to those I get a huge number of spam comments. I wish there were a lot more comments so I hope that that builds over time. One challenge to having a dialogue via comments on a blog is that there is so much spam. How
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Today I was part of a panel discussion on social media for the stem cell cause at the World Stem Cell Summit. My fellow World Stem Cell Summit panel speakers John Hlinko, Amy Adams, and Don Reed all did a great job. Something that one of speakers said in the session that ended right before
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We have posted before about how anti-stem cell folks seem to be uniquely talented and/or motivated to get their gospel out there, particularly when it comes to the Internet. According to Google search results, some of the top hits for “stem cell blog” are sites that are extremely anti-stem cell research and have little in
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Today, I am launching a new effort called Stem Cell Outreach Program for Education (SCOPE). I think stem cell technology will transform medicine across the globe, but it will take a concerted effort to make certain that stem cell-based therapies do not become a type of medicine only available to the relatively wealthy or predominantly available
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There is a kind of invisible cultural wall between patients such as cancer patients and biomedical scientists like me, but this wall does not have to exist and indeed it is a negative wall as patients, scientists, doctors, agencies, and advocates can achieve far more together than apart. But the wall is surprisingly strong. Last
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