There are weeks when it seems like papers on stem cells keep popping up. It can be a challenge to keep up with reading all the papers you want to read. Other times it is cell biology news that keeps breaking. The big news of the past week or so was unfortunately the concerning development on the halt of BlueBird … Read more

Somehow time has flown by so that I've been around for ages in the stem cell universe and some unproven stem cell clinic type firms, like the well-known Panama stem cell clinic that sells autism "treatments", are also long-timers. It's been an odd parallel existence for more than a decade. Both the Panama clinic place, run by Neil Riordan and … Read more

Recently I was going through a list I'm updating of regenerative medicine biotech companies including Bluebird Bio. Now just a few days later the world seems turned upside down for the firm and maybe to some degree for other companies doing related work. Bluebird Bio blues: 2 trial participants get cancer News broke today that Bluebird Bio had to halt … Read more

Organoids and especially brain organoids, which are made from pluripotent stem cells, are one of the most interesting developmental biology technologies of the last half a dozen or so years. Still some folks can't help but get carried away when thinking about brain organoids it seems. A new Science paper from a team led by UCSD's Alysson Muotri has stirred … Read more

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