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Weekly reads: life extension & BioViva, clinics & anti-vax, axolotls, systemic CRISPR

July 4, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
BioViva CEO Liz Parrish in YouTube video.

Let’s start off today’s recommended reads with the topic of life extension. No controversy there, right? This comes to mind because of a new preprint from BioViva, Liz Parrish, and George Church. I’m hoping to cover this on our Stem Cell Channel on YouTube.  Gene therapy and life extension research The preprint is entitled, “New …

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Weekly reads: cancer stem cells & other pubs plus a puzzler

June 6, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
kyu yum nature cancer stem cells niche

Cancer stem cells are one of the most interesting areas of research, intersecting the stem cell and cancer fields. Today’s weekly reads post highlights some new cancer stem cell articles along with some other interesting papers. I also note a recent weak stem cell clinical trial paper that is not a recommended read but is …

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Weekly reads: escape to New York, CRISPR baby patents, ISSCR guidelines, pubs

May 30, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
the high line in manhattan

My to-read list this weekend includes a range of papers along with various news & media including a report of two US research groups aiming to get CRISPR baby patents. More on that below. At long last a trip + fun thing to do in NYC Last week I took my first trip in more …

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Weekly reads: Orchard punts on life-saving SCID trial, cardioids with cavities, more

May 23, 2021 / By / 5 Comments
cardioids stem cells

Sometimes things in the stem cell world get complicated and this week is no exception with news of Orchard Therapeutics dropping a seemingly life-saving clinical trial. There are hundreds of kids who could possibly benefit. Rotten apple decision from Orchard Therapeutics From David Jensen at California Stem Cell Report we have something of a scoop: …

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Weekly reads: court case, cancer stem cells, skin, pluripotency, & more

May 16, 2021 / By / Leave a Comment
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This was a busy week for me working on a grant due Friday and a bunch of other stuff including happily analyzing a bunch of data, but there were tons of interesting papers recently including on pluripotency. California stem cell clinic court case on in the background Along the way this week I was occasionally …

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Weekly reads: oncodevelopmental factors, iPSC cancer vaccine, more

May 9, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
stem cell vaccine paper ouyang et al

One of my main research interests is in oncodevelopmental factors. These include factors that are important both for normal stem cell biology and development as well as driving cancer when misregulated. One example includes the MYC family of proto-oncogenes. When I was a postdoc I got especially interested in trying to understand the normal role …

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Weekly reads: Stem cells for vision loss & recommended pubs

April 25, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
stem cells for vision loss ribeiro et al

I’m going to start off today’s recommended reads post with some stem cells for vision developments. I had some fun the last 2 weeks as people sent in their entries for our $100 stem cell picture contest. I’ll announce the winner this week. It’s going to be hard to choose given the great entries. Stem …

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Weekly reads & stem cell news: New York axes NYSTEM, fetal tissue rules reversed, pubs & more

April 18, 2021 / By / Leave a Comment
stem cell book

It’s been a week with a wide variety of regenerative medicine papers and stem cell news. Here’s my earlier take from a few days ago on the Belmonte-led human-monkey chimeric embryo paper in Cell that broke this week. A few days ago I also put up a new video on our Stem Cell YouTube Channel …

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Weekly reads: stem cell videos, cystic fibrosis, papers

April 4, 2021 / By / Leave a Comment
stem cell videos

As part of our weekly reads I’m including one of my latest videos in our Stem Cell Channel on YouTube below. This particular video fact-checks stem cell face creams, but I’ve got quite a few more including on stem cell supplements, different kinds of stem cells and more. You might guess my view of such …

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