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Loring Open Letter to CIRM: Continuing Shared Labs Will Keep California’s Stem Cell Edge

February 1, 2021 / By / 1 Comment
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By Jeanne Loring As the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) celebrates its successes on its 10th anniversary, there is coincidentally a less happy CIRM-related event. One of CIRM’s first investments in stem cell research was a network of dedicated stem cell laboratories throughout California. This program, called “shared labs” has been cancelled. The shared …

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Holding Institutions Responsible for Research Misconduct: the recent case of a death of stem cell scientist

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments

By Zubin Master Scientist Yoshiki Sasai, age 52, committed suicide and was found dead on August 5, 2014. Sasai was deputy director of the Center for Developmental Biology (CDB) at RIKEN in Kobe, Japan, and coauthor on two recently retracted Nature papers about a reportedly easier way to make induced pluripotent stem cells. The papers …

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Guest Post By Jeanne Loring: Efforts to Save CIRM Shared Labs

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments

By Jeanne Loring “Shared Labs Axed” was the headline for David Jensen’s blog about the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the funding agency founded after voters approved Proposition 71, the “stem cell research and cures” initiative. I was there when the ax fell, in Los Angeles at the meeting of CIRM’s governing board, along with …

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Dr. Centeno’s Guest Post on Risky Surge of Newbie Stem Cell Clinics

February 1, 2021 / By / 2 Comments

By Christopher J. Centeno, M.D. We have noted an explosion in the number of stem cell clinics over the past several years. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t see several new ones pop up on the radar. On the one hand, as somebody who has been treating orthopedic patients with stem cells …

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