Dr. Charles Vacanti is scheduled as a special guest speaker on April 1 at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He’ll be speaking on STAP cells. See image below of the announcement. The title of his talk is “Tissue Engineering and STAP Cells”. It is part of the Brigham and Women’s “Leaders in Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series”. Online …
Vacanti to Speak on STAP Cells at Harvard on April 1 Read More »
STAP cells, also known as STAP stem cells, have generated a lot of discussion and debate. It seems there are strong opinions on all sides. What do you think? Please take our poll.
I’m a seismologist at the University of Tokyo, where I’ve been since 1984. I was the first tenured foreign faculty member in the history of our university. If you look at my publication list on the Researcher ID site you can see that my main research recent interests are modeling seismic wave propagation and analyzing …
Seismologist from Japan looks at the STAP cells mess Read More »
I’ve been doing a weekly-ish poll on people’s sentiments about STAP cells. It’s not scientific but many people have told me they find it interesting. Week 4’s poll is done with more than 500 votes and it is even more discouraging than week 3. See the purple line in the graph as that is the …
Week 4 poll: few hopeful about STAP cells anymore Read More »
If you are like me, you’ve managed to watch at least a bit of the Olympics the last few weeks. Sometimes I squeeze in a few minutes late at night while multi-tasking writing a grant. Other folks with more time on their hands are Olympics fanatics with gold medals, ice, and snow on the brain …
In cell Olympics iPS cells get gold, while STAP cells are too young to judge Read More »
The recent publication of two Nature papers by a team in part led by Dr. Charles Vacanti on acid treatment produced stem cells (so-called STAP stem cells) has been a blockbuster story in the stem cell field and has grabbed major global media attention as well. For background my review of the paper here and more thoughts here. Many …
Interview with Charles Vacanti on STAP Cells: Link to Spore Stem Cells & More Read More »
In two Nature papers (here and here) published today researchers report the astounding finding of reprogramming differentiated cells back to a pluripotent or even totipotent state simply by exposing the cells to extreme environmental stress, creating cells they called STAP cells. Update: see more thoughts on STAP stem cells here. No genes. No proteins. No …
Here are some cool science reads to enjoy this weekend. Lab-grown sperm made from stem cells can’t swim, but are able to fertilize eggs, reports Eric Boodman over at STAT. Mouse-human neural crest chimeras: Not only a matter of black and white. Clever title. Antonio Regalado writes about a DNA App Store coming soon to a …
Weekend reads: sperm, stem cells, chimeras, STAP, DNA Apps Read More »
It’s been many months since I last asked, so for one last time in 2014, here’s a poll on your views of STAP stem cells. What do you think? You can vote once per day. I am going to follow up with a couple different STAP-related polls this week, but this is the last one …
Do You Believe in STAP Stem Cells? One Final Poll in 2014 Read More »
