Podcast for Week of July 5 Topics –Stem Cell Tourism in the U.S. –CIRM –Article in the Hill by stem cell opponent –Stem cell hype on aging Podcast for Week of July 11 Topics: –two papers on stem cell-based tissue engineering and one on stem cell treatments for heart disease, –the Republican candidates for […]
In the last week, a number of newspapers in California have run articles or editorials about CIRM, some negative. I think in part this attention was stimulated by the Election of a new Chair at CIRM. The new Chair for CIRM is Dr. Jonathan Thomas, who I am confident will do an outstanding job. On
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What is a standing workstation? You know how when people give you bad news they ask “Are you sitting down?” Since I’m going to give you some good news in this post, I ask you now as you are reading this, are you standing up? We are constantly bombarded with news stories about what is
As I am writing this, a revolution in medicine and science is building up steam around the world called Genomics. Let me clue you in so you do not miss the boat on this dramatic change coming in our lives. Genomics means the study of genomes. A genome is the complete sequence of an organism’s DNA,
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Что такое стволовые клетки Note that this is one of our “Stem Cells Not Lost in Translation” series. You can see the full series of our stem cell white paper in 35 languages here. Человеческое тело содержит сотни различных типов клеток, которые важны для нашего здоровья. Эти клетки отвечают за ежедневную поддержку наших жизненных функций,
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Note that this is one of our “Stem Cells Not Lost in Translation” series. You can see the full series of our stem cell white paper in 34 languages here. مترجم : یاسمن نیکنام سلولهای بنیادی چه هستند؟ بدن انسان دارای صدها نوع مختلف سلول است که برای سلامت روزانه ما مهم هستند. این سلولها
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Ce sunt celulele stem? Organismul uman conţine sute de tipuri diferite de celule care sunt importante pentru sănătatea noastră de zi cu zi. Aceste celule sunt responsabile pentru a păstra funcţia normală a corpului nostru în fiecare zi. Exempluri includ capacitatea de a face inimile noastre sa bată, creierul să creadă, rinichi să curaţe sîngele
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Note that this post ¿Qué son las células madre? is one of our “Stem Cells Not Lost in Translation” series. You can see the full 2020 series of our stem cell white paper in 34 languages here. ¿Qué son las células madre? El cuerpo humano contiene cientos de diferentes tipos de células que son importantes
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What’s the most amazing, weird, funny, bad, good thing that has happened to you in the lab? Here’s one from me. One day as a graduate student I was finishing up a long weekend of work and was ready to go home. No one else was around in our lab or even in the building
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CIRM announced two sets of awards today that both should make major impact including its first clinical trial via Geron and $38 million for 27 basic biology studies. First Clinical Trial. Today CIRM awarded $25 million to support Geron’s FDA-approved clinical trial for spinal cord injury. This is CIRM’s first award to a for-profit company
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