It’s Friday. TGIF….although of course the stem cells will be growing, experiments going, the grants and papers continue being written, and data still analyzed on Saturdays and Sundays too in the stem cell field. Stem cells are not a Mon-Fri, 9-5 kind of universe, but most of you reading this blog know that. It seems like the last few weeks have brought an unusually high level of mainstream media coverage of the stem cell field with big headlines and big stories. What to make …Read More
test tube hamburger
On his show, Conan O’Brien on Monday (7/29/13) made a stem cell joke, perhaps without even realizing it. The joke was reprinted in the SacBee this morning (see image at right). The joke is based on the recent development of a synthetic hamburger made from stem cells in a lab (you can read more here). Conan calls the stem cell-produced hamburger a “test tube hamburger”. Interestingly, Conan says he would try it! Below left is a picture of the prototype stem cell produced meat …Read More