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Nominees for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013: scientists, advocates, physicians, and the Pope

Nominations for Stem Cell Person of the Year 2013 closed last night and I ended up with a remarkable list of 30 nominees. I have included a few sentences about each one below, often taking verbiage directly from the nominator. The online voting on these nominees will start soon. The top vote getters will move …

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MiMedx (MDXG) placental “stem cell magnet” drugs attract FDA attention and lawsuit

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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Joanne Kurtzberg interview, Part 2: clinics & stem cell field future

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I recently conducted an interview with Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg of Duke. You can see Part 1 of the interview here. Today in Part 2, I asked Dr. Kurtzberg some broader questions about the stem cell field. 1. How concerned are you about non-compliant stem cell interventions here in the US as well as stem cell …

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Stem Cells An Insider’s Guide: More on My New Book

In about a month my new book, Stem Cells: An Insider’s Guide, should be available as an e-book from the publisher and from Amazon. It’s available for pre-order now at Amazon here. The “real” book (i.e. the one made of paper) should be available in September. The book costs $29. Any writers out there interested in doing …

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Stemage Stem Cell Anti-Aging Cream 2.0: Interview with Dr. David Scharp

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Remember Stemage? They are the cosmetic company with Kathy Ireland as their spokesperson whose anti-aging cream includes extracts from human stem cells. In Part 1 of this blog series on Stemage I gave some key background and raised some important questions. I also sent some questions to the company and now more recently to the …

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Cellular Dynamics IPO: big money, iPS cell IP rights, trade secrets

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Cellular Dynamics, the stem cell company founded by Dr. James Thomson, is filing for an IPO. Hat tip to David Jensen. The company, which will go under the stock symbol ICEL, is focused on iPS cell-produced products. They describe their portfolio as follows: Cellular Dynamics is developing and deploying a number of cell types derived from …

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Stem cell company Intellicell facing new financial wrinkles

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It’s difficult to make it as a biotech company, I would say stem cell biotechs in general may have an even rougher time, and one such company,  Intellicell (Intellicell Biosciences, Inc), is showing a number of signs of distress in my opinion. An online financial tool predicts the probability of companies going bankrupt within the next …

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Kim Kardashian vampire facials: stem cells in there?

Celebrities such as Kim Kardashian are reportedly getting so-called vampire facials. Why put yourself through that? Perhaps because stem cells and other material inside the processed blood is supposed to make them younger? Yes, that is Kim above (photo from Kim Kardashian on Instagram) with her face smeared with blood, but not just ordinary Kardashian …

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Disease Focus Series

Cancer Stem Cells: a new target Disease Focus Series: Cancer Disease Focus Series: HIV/AIDS Disease Focus Series: Spinal Cord InjuryDisease Focus Series: Osteoarthritis research moving forward Disease Focus Series: Parkinson’s Disease and promising new pre-clinical results from iPS cells Disease Focus Series: a big week of exciting progress on Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer’s Disease Disease Focus …

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Seli shina ni nini?

Swahili Seli shina ni nini? Mwili wa binadamu una mamia ya seli (chembechembe hai) za aina tofauti zenye umuhimu kiafya.  Seli hizi zina jukumu la kuendesha mifumo mbalimbali ya miili yetu, kwa mfano, kuendesha mapigo ya moyo, kuwezesha fikra akilini, usafishaji wa damu kwenye figo, kutengeneza ngozi mpya, na kadhalika.  Kazi ya kipekee ya seli …

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