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Holiday reads: woolly dog vs. mammoth, man eggs, designer B-cells, bluebird bio blues

What is a woolly dog? Is it somehow related to the Woolly Mammoth? Before we get into that and the rest of my recommended reads, note that I'm finalizing my list of contenders for this year's The Screamers Science Hype Awards. Last year The BBC won The Screamers for an article "Baby’s life ‘probably saved’ by umbilical stem cells." Oof. …
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Surprising new FDA remarks to AABB on cord biologics misuse & stem cell clinics

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The Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies or AABB recently had a very useful Q&A with the FDA on cord blood use. There are some important new things from the FDA on the marketing and use of cord blood in there. The agency was also quite blunt in some ways about the challenges, while in others I think …