Long-time television and music personality, Dick Clark, has passed away at age 82 today. Growing up as a kid in the 1970s and 80s, I knew Dick Clark from American Bandstand and $20,000 pyramid, but more than that I knew him for how amazingly young he always looked. I was not a big fan of […]
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Τι είναι τα βλαστοκύτταρα; Greek. Τι είναι τα βλαστοκύτταρα; Το ανθρώπινο σώμα περιέχει εκατοντάδες διαφορετικά είδη κυττάρων που είναι απαραίτητα για την καθημερινή μας υγεία. Τα κύτταρα αυτά είναι υπεύθυνα για διάφορες βασικές λειτουργίες, όπως το να κάνουν την καρδιά μας να χτυπά, τον εγκέφαλό μας να σκέφτεται, τα νεφρά μας να καθαρίζουν το αίμα,
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Plz “Like” my 2 photos for the Cell I See contest on FB! Click to see images and then “Like them” Paul Photo 1 and Paul Photo 2 Thanks! Paul
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Humans have big brains, right? In fact, they are downright supersized. But is that always such a good thing? As it turns out, no. Size matters, but bigger is not always better for brains at least. When I was in high school, my biology teacher had us do the requisite frog dissection and offered extra
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As long as I can remember, Easter has been a part of my life and for better or worse there are two things that as a kid symbolized Easter above all else for me. Eggs Chocolate Someone once told me that chocolate is proof that God exists. When it comes to eggs, they were omnipresent
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The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, April 12th, is rapidly approaching and I think there are some lessons there for the stem cell field. The Titanic was hyped as a marvel of modern technology, widely advertised as huge, unsinkable and fast. An unexpected combination….almost too good to be true. This portrayal of
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Does the Vatican view the American pro-lifers as a bunch of wacky extremists? An article today certainly suggest this. What’s going on? The Vatican, Catholics more generally, and “pro-lifers”, as designated by the Catholic website CatholicCulture.org are still apparently very much at odds over a now cancelled Vatican conference on stem cells that would have included
Why aren’t there are super pygmy vertebrates? For most vertebrate animals, their early embryonic development unfolds in extremely congruent fashions. Embryo growth is stem cell-dependent and in large part, despite different gestational periods, the molecular and cellular machinery that controls vertebrate development is almost perfectly conserved. Yet at maturity vertebrates end up with a range
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The stem cell research field is hot. It has been a sexy field for a long time, only made the sexier by the discovery of iPS cells in 2006. Not surprisingly, the number of publications on stem cells is increasing and there is an ever-increasing number of journals devoted specifically to stem cells. Interest in
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I am currently researching an article on the “discovery” of stem cells and the earliest stem cell research. Stay tuned for that. As I’ve been educating myself on the early history of stem cells I became familiar with a scientist that I had not previously heard of during my career who played a key role
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