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The Niche
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Stem Cell & Regenerative Med Newsletter
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Weekly reads: Xist & autoimmune disease in women, Crohn's disease, dumb headline of the week
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Readers of The Niche have asked me many questions about stem cells for autoimmune disease but the puzzle of why women get these conditions more often than men hasn't come up before here. For instance, why is MS so much more common in women than men? It's remained somewhat of a mystery over the years. Now a new paper provides …
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Long-term hope on stem cells for deafness
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A reader of The Niche recently asked me, "What about stem cells for deafness?" It's a great question and, as they pointed out, stem cells for vision loss gets much more attention. I've covered the translational progress of stem cells to treat many diseases but there has been less progress for deafness in the regenerative medicine arena. It was exciting …
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Perspectives 10 years after STAP cells: the culture of science, misconduct, & hopes for progress
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Exactly ten years ago today, on January 29, 2014, I wrote about two new Nature papers on so-called STAP cells. The papers claimed that stress alone could convert regular non-stem cells into some of the most powerful stem cells. More specifically, the authors claimed to make pluripotent stem cells similar to iPS cells this way. Maybe even totipotent cells. They …
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