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Northwestern abruptly ending Burt HSCT autoimmune trials

February 1, 2021 / By / 55 Comments
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“HSCT Chicago Clinic Closing!” is the startling header in all caps on a patient-run Facebook page about a stem cell therapy clinical trial program at Northwestern University. What’s going on? Unfortunately, the promising field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) for multiple sclerosis (MS) and other autoimmune diseases seems to have suffered an unexpected setback …

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‘Bottom of stem cell barrel’? Utah piece sparks legal threat

June 3, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
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Up until now Utah hasn’t immediately come to mind as a hub for stem cell issues, but things are heating up there in 2019. Utah? I was going to do a blog post here on The Niche last month about perinatal (birth-related) biologics and stem cell-related supply companies in Utah. Some of their customers appear …

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Celeb stem cell clinic shots series: John Cleese ‘spam’ edition

February 1, 2021 / By / Leave a Comment
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When you read “spam, spam, spam” do you think of Monty Python? I do. Some folks may immediately think of email spam. There might even be a connection between the ubiquitous email spam and the old Monty Python spam. See the video below. What’s spam got to do with stem cells? Is there stem cell …

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Helpful tomato tips for growing great ones

May 24, 2023 / By / 3 Comments
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Looking for some tomato tips? I do sometimes escape the lab into the outside world and once out of there I can often be found in my vegetable garden  looking after my tomatoes. I’ve written many times here on The Niche about gardening including tomatoes and have an occasional series “Scientist in the Garden.” After …

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Stem cell pioneer Masayo Takahashi (高橋 政代) leaves RIKEN

December 22, 2023 / By / 2 Comments
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In a surprise, Dr. Masayo Takahashi has announced that she has left RIKEN. Takahashi indicates she will be new President of a company called Vision Care, Inc. as part of the Kobe Eye Center. I’ve pasted a picture of Takahashi’s Tweet with translation more toward the bottom of the post. A big thanks to Piero …

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Epic stem cell pic contest: win free swag, new Dragon book & t-shirt

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments
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Who doesn’t like a good science contest with prizes? There are so many beautiful pictures of cells including some that are stem cell-related out there in journals and on the web. We can find such images are in papers. Sometimes people post such great cell pics on the web too. In the past I’ve run …

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Fugitives Dr. David Morrow & wife caught in Israel; fraud allegations in stem cell clinic world grow

February 1, 2021 / By / 3 Comments
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There once was a place called The Morrow Institute here in California run by a physician named David Morrow. This clinic did various kinds of cosmetic procedures and also unproven, non-FDA approved fat stem cell-related stuff too for some years. Last month during some research on clinics I found several media links (e.g. here) from …

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StemGenex, unproven clinic sued by patients, morphs into Advanced Cell Medicine?

February 1, 2021 / By / 4 Comments
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The  unproven stem cell clinic StemGenex appears to now be called Advanced Cell Medicine. StemGenex is facing a proposed class action lawsuit by patients and it also recently received an FDA warning letter. StemGenex is notable too in that it seemed to be considering taking some extreme action against perceived critic websites including potentially the …

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Wild stem cell ad piggybacks off hyped ‘interstitium is new tissue’ pub

February 1, 2021 / By / 5 Comments
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Last year an odd pub  made the big claim that the interstitium is a new organ. I didn’t buy that. Now an over-the-top stem cell advertisement that recently ran in the San Diego Union-Tribune (U-T) is piggybacking off of the supposed “interstitium as new tissue” claim to make all kinds of other claims about some …

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The future of California stem cell research & CIRM

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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The four words “California stem cell research” go nicely together and I hope they will continue to resonate in a special way to people around the world in the coming decade. We are at a crossroads for stem cell research in California as the original form of the California Stem Cell Agency (CIRM) winds down. …

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