It’s only September 2013, but already stem cell aficionados are thinking ahead to 2014. What meetings should you go to? I have already started my new page for 2014 Stem Cell Meetings & Conferences. Check it out and start making plans. I already see several I am going to go to in 2014 and it’s […]
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ABC News just reported that the FDA is allgedly “cracking down” on the publicly traded company, MiMedx (MDXG), which sells a placental derivative touted for healing powers. The Wall Street Journal is also following the story. According to ABC News: MiMedx is a publically traded, for-profit company that takes donated human placentas — solicited via a website featuring
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On May 13, 2011 I published a post entitled “Friday the 13th for iPS cells”. That day was indeed Friday the 13th and there were some reports in Nature of concerns about iPS cells in terms of immunogenicity and this had followed on the heels of reports on significant genomic and epigenomic warts in iPS
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What if you could reprogram cells inside of an organism to a different fate and, for instance, make IPS cells? We can, right? But when most of us think about making induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, we imagine it all happening in a little plastic dish in our labs or in our colleague’s labs, not
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Nominations will open tomorrow September 10th for the 2013 Stem Cell Person of the Year Award. The 2012 award process involved several steps and included an online polling element that had some influence on the ultimate decision. You can see the voting on the list of finalists (who were selected from about 30 total nominees) here. Ultimately, super
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In a 2009 article on stem cells in the journal Stem Cells, Deconstructing Stem Cell Tumorigenicity: A Roadmap to Safe Regenerative Medicine, I coined a new word: stemotoxic It’s a useful word on a number of levels for the stem cell field. What does “stemotoxic” mean? I hope it is fairly intuitive in that it means something
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Stem cell research is exciting on many levels and provides real hope for treating an assortment of serious diseases and injuries in the future, but another potential positive of stem cells such as iPS cells is their use in producing modeling human tissues and organs to model diseases. A third positive, but often overlooked potential
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Some stem cell clinics are pressuring their own patients into potentially breaking federal law through something like smuggling. A big problem for certain clinics is how to bring the paying American customer (i.e. the patient) and the biological product that they are selling derived from the patient’s stem cells together outside the reach of the
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I recently did a poll on stem cell homing. As you can see from the poll results above, most respondents believe that stem cells can home depending on circumstances. Almost 2/3 of respondents believe that stem cells sometimes or always home in to areas of disease. However, most respondents did not believe in this being
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Life Technologies makes all kind of great stem cell stuff, but would you think of them as a stem cell video maker? They are a sponsor on this website and they are very excited about stem cell technology. Life’s media brand, Gibco, has a hilarious new video out on YouTube on stem cells and media
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