Remember our old friends Liveyon? Their leader John Kosolcharoen? Liveyon’s continuing metamorphosis This biologics supply firm has gone through several stages of corporate metamorphosis as a supplier of biologics including at first a purported living umbilical cord stem cell product. That stem cell thrust ultimately landed a dozen or more people in the hospital as …
Liveyon is back (again) with unproven exosome product Read More »
Gwyneth Paltrow has a new Netflix show coming up in a couple of weeks called “The Goop Lab” and her Goop company promotes a lot of wacky things so one Sunday over lunch I thought I’d take a look at what they sell related to stem cells. Going into this, I didn’t know for sure …
As Goop Lab TV show approaches, my look at their ‘stem cell’ products Read More »
What’s the deal with IntelliCell Biosciences, headed up by Dr. Steven Victor? Sometimes science can move at warp speed and that is even more true of the stem cell field. One stem cell establishment that seems to be in a particularly intense period of activity and that has drawn a great deal of attention lately …
Interview with Dr. Steven Victor of IntelliCell Biosciences (SVFC) Read More »
I was alerted by a friend to the fact that there are now YouTube ads for stem cell products popping up, and one such ad features supermodel Kathy Ireland pitching for something called Stemáge Skin Care. Updated (May 23): note that preliminary word from Sanford-Burnham is that they are not collaborating on Stemáge. Today’s post is …
Kathy Ireland Stemáge Stem Cell Product: Part 1, is it a drug? Read More »
L’Oreal/Lancome has been in the business of making money off of stem cells for quite some time now via so-called stem cell facial creams that are expensive and based on dubious claims, and now they are in the stem cells for baldness biz too. Note I have a helpful 2nd post on how stem cells …
L’Oreal now claims baldness cure with stem cells Read More »
Every year around this time I put my “best of” the year in stem cells including awards such as my Stem Cell Person of the Year Award. For example here are the 2011 awards. This year I’m also trying with difficult to decide on what was the craziest thing for stem cells that happened in …
What was the strangest event for stem cells in 2012? Pick from top 5 in poll Read More »