I wish I had a T-shirt like the one at right below that I made up. I already hate the Higgs Boson and I’m not even sure it exists. Neither are the scientists who today reported they might have discovered it to much fanfare. Today’s hysteria and hype is based on the reported, kinda maybe sort of […]
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Scientists are sinners? Yep. Here’s our series of articles on the seven deadline sins of science (note so far only the first 5 sins have been covered). Failure to Cite Paper or grant killing Need for Speed Hype Snobbery To be announced To be announced
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I’m discussing the seamier side of science in a seven part series on what I call scientific sinning or the “seven sins of scientists”. The first four pieces in this series really stoked a great deal of interest and debate, covering Failure to Cite, Paper or grant killing, Need for Speed, and hype. Today in the fifth installment
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It’s been another weird week in the stem cell universe with more ugly headlines than good ones. What are the good, bad, and ugly headlines? Mainly bad stuff this week! If I missed good news headlines that you liked, please tell us in the comments! Über ugly Stem cells regrow man’s foot. Really? What the heck? Supposedly
TGIF: mostly ugly stem cell headlines for week of June 1 including one for ACTC Read More »
TGIF It’s been a wild week on this blog with many thoughts going out to the future of stem cells in Texas. What about stem cell headlines of the week? Some wildness there too and lots of discussion of translational applications, which is exciting. This week let’s start in reverse order with the ugly and
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Two articles in today’s New York Times got me thinking about how science can be pursued privately or publicly. I believe that getting that mix of public and private science right will directly determine the fate of humanity. In a pop-science NYT piece, James Gorman writes about how people may in the not so distant
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Of course stem cells and their caretakers never sleep or take the weekend off, right? But still TGIF! Last week we had some really good and some ugly stem cell headlines that I covered here. How was this week? Good. ES cell differentiation requires chromatin compaction. A PLoS Genetics paper by a team led by Yuhong
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I’m going to try to do a new feature on Fridays, a TGIF review of the week in stem cell headlines in the news. What’s the good, the bad, and the ugly? What’s been hyped? It was a busy week in stem cells. The good Prostate Cancer Stem Cells. I’d give the recent wonderful Cell
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I have interviewed two folks on the very important US vs. Regenerative Sciences legal case: Dr. Chris Centeno and Doug Sipp. More background on the case can be found at the FDA Law Blog. I thank them both for their time and for sharing their unique perspectives. I have specific rules for these interviews and
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What’s the scoop on stem cell sports medicine? So far the role of stem cells in sports medicine is essentially all hype. We see sports stars getting stem cell treatments that are not approved by the FDA and have little if any science behind them. I covered stem cell sports medicine in an earlier post
Stem Cell Sports Medicine 2.0: entering the red zone Read More »