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Myriad SCOTUS Decision: Can you have a gene patent?

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Should a company be able to have a gene patent and more generally and practically speaking can genes be patented? Patent and IP issues always raise a myriad of questions so what about a patent case on a company called Myriad? Complicated, right? If genes in their natural form cannot be patented, does that mean …

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Call for guest ISSCR 2013 bloggers: audience of thousands awaits you

Are you attending the ISSCR 2013 Annual Meeting this week in Boston? Want to get your voice heard about what you think of the meeting or specific talks or the most interesting thing you heard at the bar? You have an invitation to guest blog here on ipscell.com. Send me your ideas or draft posts, …

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Fertility clinic floats idea of human cloning for infertility

Human cloning is not so far-fetched any more.  Cloning of the Star Wars variety where new copies of people (although they would be babies, not adults of course at first) are produced is something I believe that we’ll see in the next 1-2 decades. Why would anyone bother to clone? Fame. Money. Vanity. There are …

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NASA suffering from pareidolia & apophenia? The watery science of Mars

I worry that NASA is suffering from apophenia and pareidolia. Both acute and chronic cases. What the heck? Let me explain. Do you ever look up at the clouds and see fluffy animals? Or maybe other things that clouds look like such as a train, plane, or a dragon? Pareidolia is the tendency of people …

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Why Shoukhrat Mitalipov opposes human cloning

People have been confused about human cloning issues in the last few weeks on a number of levels. The confusion has come along with the excitement, concern, and increased interest in cloning lately since the lab of Dr. Shoukhrat Mitalipov reported a few weeks back in Cell the astonishing feat of successful human embryonic stem …

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Baldness points to big positive power of blogs

Baldness can teach us something about blogging? You might be surprised! My mission with this blog is to responsibly use its influence for good for educational outreach to help people learn about stem cells. Can this blog make a difference? Does it have any influence? It seems so. Blogging is a lot more powerful than …

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What do you make of the human cloning paper mistakes? Take our poll

When a high-profile paper ends up having mistakes, it can be a big deal and cause a lot of problems for the authors and the field. Recently, a sexy Cell paper on ES cell cloning from the lab of Shoukhrat Mitalipov was published and soon a number of mistakes were identified. How does that impact …

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Interview with CAMR President & PAN CEO, Amy Comstock Rick

As many of you know, the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR) announced today that it will dissolve as an organization. I both emailed and talked on the phone with the President of CAMR, Amy Rick (who by the way is also CEO of the Parkinson’s Action Network (PAN)). Below is a concise …

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