The stem cell community is buzzing today with excitement about the Nobel Prizes deservedly awarded to Shinya Yamanaka and John Gurdon for their pioneering work on cellular reprogramming. However, it is also just as worked up about the strange omission in this award of what could have been a third scientist awarded the prize for …
Poll: who should have shared in stem cell Nobel Prize in third slot? Read More »
What are stem cells? Korean 줄기세포란 무엇인가? 인간의 신체는 하루하루의 건강에 중요한 역할을 하는 수백 종류의 다른 세포들로 구성되어 있습니다. 이 세포들은 우리의 심장을 뛰게 하고, 뇌가 생각 하게 하며, 신장에서 혈액을 정화시키고, 벗겨져 나간 피부세포를 대체하는 등 매일같이 우리의 신체를 유지하는 역할을 하고 있습니다. 줄기세포의 고유한 역할은 이런 다양한 세포들을 만들어 내는 것입니다. 줄기세포는 …
Top stem cell meetings and conferences. If you want me to post your meeting, email me or post a comment (I’ll delete the comment and add the meeting to the main page). Meetings from 2012 can be found here. My listing of these meetings is not an endorsement of them, but is provided for informational …
Did Celltex just get an FDA warning letter? I’m not sure. We may find out tomorrow as the FDA updates their public warning letter list early in the week. What’s Celltex? Celltex is that famous stem cell company in Sugarland, Texas that gave Guv Rick Perry stem cell transplants. It was inspected by the FDA …
Yesterday I managed to get to see a fabulous talk by Dr. Edison Liu, President and CEO of The Jackson Laboratory in Maine. I was able to squeeze it in, in between working on my R01 proposal and preparing for teaching histo to the med students here at UC Davis Med School. Dr. Liu was …
There aren’t that many stem cell blogs out there on the Internet, although the number is growing, and the one that has been around quite a while is called “Repairstemcell” or “The Stem Cell Blog”. Granovsky is a self-proclaimed empowerer of patients and calls himself “the informer”, apparently meaning someone who will guide patients to …
David Granovsky of ‘The Stem Cell Blog’ disrespects Christopher Reeve Read More »
Next month will be the 1st Houston Stem Cell Summit organized by Robin Young, who also organizes the New York Stem Cell Summit. I’ve been a bit tough on this meeting for a perceived lack of diversity in their program of speakers. I interviewed Robin Young (RY) about the meeting and found his answers quite interesting …
Intriguing interview with Robin Young, Organizer of Houston Stem Cell Summit Read More »
There are legitimate arguments about the degree to which the FDA should regulate stem cell clinics and the point-of-care, for-profit stem cell industry. I’ve held debates about that on my blog with argument on both sides including a very valuable debate between Dr. Chris Centeno and Doug Sipp. However, increasingly it is looking like the …
As stem cell industry explodes, can a static FDA keep up? Read More »
The NY Times has just run a 3-part, high-profile series on the developing biomedical area of adult stem cell-based tissue regeneration and organ transplant. See picture above (from NY Times) of rat hearts and lungs being “washed” of cells to be used as scaffolds for growing new organs. You can read the three articles here: …
Very cool adult stem cell and organ regeneration series in NY Times Read More »
How the organizers of the Houston Stem Cell Summit made a big flub? I wrote a few days ago about the big deal upcoming Houston Stem Cell Summit with Guv Perry as headliner and a big group of stem cell clinic folks speaking. There is a sense in the stem cell community that this …
Houston Stem Cell Summit blows it and loses its website? Read More »