Stem Cell Family Christmas Letter
Enjoy my stem cell humor in the stem cell family Christmas letter below. I can’t believe it’s been 7 years since I wrote that and my book: Stem Cell An Insider’s Guide.
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TGIF: Friday the 13th Stem Cell Joke Contest
I’m in the mood for something lighthearted and funny as sometimes humor is the best medicine so I’ve got a stem cell joke contest for you. The winner gets a signed copy of my book or a huge thing of cookies, your choice. The rules? Simple. The joke starts roughly as follows “Three stem cells …
Guest Post on the Future of Stem Cells: World Alliance Forum Meeting
The World Alliance Forum held a really great meeting yesterday in SF about the future of stem cells. Below, Johnathon Anderson has a great guest post summarizing the meeting. The collective brain power in the room was pretty staggering. The meeting brought together stem cell leaders from academia, industry, startup incubators and funding agencies. The purpose …
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What would you do with an extra brain?
Let’s putting on our “thinking caps”….er, extra brains, get our geek on, and have some fun imagining where stem cell technology may lead us in the coming century. Unhappy with the one brain you have? Wouldn’t it be amazing to have a 2nd one too? A new one? Researchers have grown mini brain-like structures from …
Stem Cells An Insider’s Guide: More on My New Book
In about a month my new book, Stem Cells: An Insider’s Guide, should be available as an e-book from the publisher and from Amazon. It’s available for pre-order now at Amazon here. The “real” book (i.e. the one made of paper) should be available in September. The book costs $29. Any writers out there interested in doing …
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Top Stem Cell Blogs List & Their Internet Metrics
There are a few excellent stem cell blogs out there. I can see two main ways to evaluate blogs. The first and most important in my opinion is qualitative. Do you enjoy the blog? Does it have fresh, original, & interesting content? Is it influential? I also look for a sense of humor and a …
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Some teasers from my new book, “Stem Cells: An Insider’s Guide”
I’m excited about my new book that is coming out called, “Stem Cells: An Insider’s Guide”. It’s just about complete and fully edited so it should be available later this summer, hopefully relatively much sooner as an e-book. You can pre-order it on Amazon or directly through the publisher here. Note that the final price …
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Writing the book on stem cells
After a couple of years blogging about stem cells here, I decided to direct some of my writing effort toward a book on stem cells. I started this project with the publisher last summer and I am happy to report that the book should be coming out later this year some time. I just sent …
Viacyte & Mesoblast present at CIRM Meeting
Allan Robins of Viacyte (pictured at left–sorry for the fuzzy image) and Paul Simmons of Mesoblast presented this morning at the CIRM Grantee Meeting. Both talks were outstanding. Robins went first. He started by saying how Viacyte had a productive pre-IND meeting with the FDA last year. I believe a target for them is to …
Taboo topics about iPS cells: updated for 2013
I’m doing this series called “The Elephant in the Lab” where I discuss controversial or taboo laboratory topics that people are usually too afraid to publicly discuss. I started with iPS cells (for a description and definition of iPS cells go here) and now have updated this post for 2013 because the field is changing rapidly. iPS …