Wanna play stem cell Whack-a-Mole? Uh, no. I was listening to NPR while commuting home the other day and heard an interesting story about the history of YouTube and its legal issues with film studies. It was quite interesting and, of course as a stem cell fan, a link with stem cells came to me […]
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More great professor blogs! I’ll add more as they come in…. http://sandwalk.blogspot.com/ by Larry Moran http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/ by Jerry Coyne http://bytesizebio.net/ by Iddo Friedberg http://genomeinformatician.blogspot.com/ by Ewan Birney http://oikosjournal.wordpress.com by Jeremy Fox http://www.zoology.ubc.ca/~redfield/doing.html by Rosie Redfield
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Where do we stand on stem cells for eye disorders? The only biotech with an active hESC-based clinical trial, Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) will have three top leaders including CEO Gary Rabin participating in a CIRM webinar on stem cell-based treatments for eye disorders this Wednesday. Also involved with be Samuel Barone, a medical officer
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Whether it is people or cells, how much control do we really have over their behavior? Very little. The Secret Service is at the center of a huge international scandal involving prostitution and potentially compromised nationally security. Clearly, the Secret Service failed to do their incredibly important job of protecting the President and national security,
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I have to say that Nutella is yummy. But it is also incredibly unhealthy in contrast to their advertising, particularly their promotion that Nutella is part of a healthy breakfast. It was a very successful campaign as one of my daughters every now and then eats Nutella for breakfast now but never did in the
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Lately the urban myth that there are embryonic stem cells in Pepsi has been spreading like wildfire. I’ve been doing some mythbusting part to squelch these flames (and not by pouring Pepsi on them), but it isn’t easy. Why does it even matter if some folks are going around saying there are embryonic stem cells
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The conflict in Ireland over stem cells is still brewing and bubbling this week as I’ve been blogging it. It is remarkable to me that as just one person I have in a few days been able to have a substantial impact in that dialogue via this blog. There has been a rather large push
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I put up a poll recently asking readers how they predicted the federal court would rule on federal funding of human ESC research. Six out of 10 respondents believed that the court would rule against the government, in effect making federal funding of ESC research illegal. In addition, one third of respondents believed an immediate injunction
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LinkedIn is a professional social networking website. Most of you probably know it and are probably members. I have liked LinkedIn, but was so disappointed to find out that they regularly engage in censorship. Really? Yep, read on. Many people find it a very valuable resource for networking, but it also is supposed to serve
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The stem cell field is truly global. However, sometimes those of us who do research and/or act as patient advocates here in the U.S. need to wake up from a bit of tunnel vision and realize that there are critical fights going on over stem cell research elsewhere in the world. These are crucially important.
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