I got some great entries for our The Niche stem cell picture contest. While I expected many bright colorful images, every year some of the pictures surprise me in certain ways. There was another surprise in that two entrants in the contest, both Assistant Professors, are sisters. A talented family! You can see the previous …
The Niche stem cell picture contest winners: gut & astrocytes Read More »
The paper of the week reports using base-editing, a kind of gene-editing, to reverse mutations associated with rapid aging syndromes, generally called progeria, but there are a lot of other interesting pubs to recommend for reading this week. I go over it all in this post. Gene-editing to fight premature aging syndromes In vivo base …
Weekly reads & paper of the week: gene-editing vs. aging Read More »
Maybe we can use science as an escape from politics during the last week or so before the election? I hope so. Here are my weekly recommended reads. Several papers ended up relating to nucleus, cell and embryo size and space as well as chromatin, which is very interesting. Cell and chromatin biology pubs, media …
Weekly science reads: CRISPR, stem cells, cell size & space, more Read More »
Ready for the latest recommended weekly reads in the world of stem cells and the regenerative medicine space including a bunch of important new FDA posts & changes? This post has quite a lot on the FDA since it had a very big week with several new items of major importance to the cellular and regenerative …
Weekly reads: FDA news, goosebump stem cells, MSCs, autophagy Read More »
People ask me questions about stem cells all the time so I decide to do a new blog series answering your questions. Today’s post is the first in this new stem cell Q&A series. Past series have included my Elephant in the Lab series that provides some insights into the craziness that sometimes goes on …
Patients stem cell Q&A#1: can clinic injections cause GVHD? Read More »
Masayo Takahashi is a leading stem cell researcher doing translational and clinical research on vision. She’s doing pioneering work on using pluripotent stem cells as a basis for helping patients with vision loss such as due to macular degeneration. She won The Niche’s Stem Cell Person of the Year Award in 2014 and a number …
Masayo Takahashi (高橋 政代): exciting vision work advancing including with photoreceptors Read More »
Marketing of unproven stem cells has exploded in the past 3 years including some ads for things that sure seem like snake oil to me. Overall, it’s likely that hundreds of thousands of dollars if not more than a million are being spent on advertising of unproven stem cells. While in the past I’ve generally …
Discover Magazine runs full-page ‘stem cell’ snake oil ad Read More »
For years I’ve been working on an educational outreach program that I call SCOPE, for stem cell outreach program for education that translates a concise stem cell white paper I wrote with key basic and clinical stem cell information into as many languages as possible. Now with the addition of Czech with thanks to translator …
Stem Cells Not Lost in Translation Project: Now up to 33 languages with Czech Read More »
I’ve been blogging about stem cells now for about 8 years and the recent level of hype about and fluffy media coverage of Celularity, the biotech spun out of Celgene, ranks right up here with the most extreme past cases I’ve seen. What is Celularity and who is its leadership? It’s a new biotech focused …
Just one word placentas: Can Celularity live up to hype? Read More »
The classic sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage keeps coming to mind for me as I see and do research involving organoids. In it, the heroes travel inside of the human body in a craft, observing all kinds of awesome biology in an up close and personal kind of way on route into the brain with the goal …
Fantastic organoid voyage: views from inside organoids Read More »