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Weekly reads: court case, cancer stem cells, skin, pluripotency, & more

This was a busy week for me working on a grant due Friday and a bunch of other stuff including happily analyzing a bunch of data, but there were tons of interesting papers recently including on pluripotency. California stem cell clinic court case on in the background Along the way this week I was occasionally trying to listen in on …
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COVID Traps Alveoli Cells in a Curious Progenitor State, Squelching Lung Regeneration

normal lung alveoli indicating examples at1 and at2 cells
Mere weeks into the COVID pandemic, stunning graphics began to appear depicting the path of devastation of SARS-CoV-2 through a human lung. It’s only recently that we’ve come to understand what, exactly, is happening on a cellular level. The new view is thanks to single-cell RNA-sequencing, which analyzes the abundance of messenger RNAs in individual cells. The cells utilize the …

Fact-check of stem cell therapy for pain & neuropathy

Does it make any sense medically or scientifically to use stem cell therapy for pain or neuropathy? There isn't much solid evidence that this is a good way to go. However, there's a vast scope of research ongoing in this area. Stem cell clinics have been earning millions of dollars each year selling this idea too. The goal of today's …
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