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Weekly reads: elephant stem cells, RIP Connie Eaves, AI cell biology

Last week one of the most popular stories was about a preprint from a mammoth de-extinction research group led by George Church having made elephant stem cells. I finally got a chance to look carefully at their preprint. Elephant stem cells preprint and mammoth de-extinction The elephant stem cells preprint has solid data. It looks like the team did succeed in …
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US clinics widely selling unproven RNA therapy including for cancer from Greek firm RGCC

SOT, supportive oligonucleotide therapy
A few dozen clinics in the US sell an unproven RNA therapy called supportive oligonucleotide therapy or SOT. The product comes from a Greek firm RGCC or Research Genetic Cancer Center, which also pre-tests patients' gene expression to design the RNA product. Clinics marketing SOT in the US say it is intended to act by repressing pathogenic gene expression inside …