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Recommended reads: a tale of human tails, heart reprogramming, pericytes, microglia

A piece on human tails and how we lost them caught my eye so I'll start my weekly reads with that. This week I had the fewest Zoom meetings in ages, which allowed me to get more work done in my own lab and more reading. How about that? I even had some in-person meetings too. Some day maybe such …
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Boning up on stem cells for osteoporosis: good idea, little data so far

osteoporosis, stem cells for osteoporosis
It's great when an idea like stem cells for osteoporosis just makes so much common sense, but it still requires data. A logical hypothesis is not enough. The point of today's post is to fact-check the idea of using stem cells for such bone loss. A femur to stand on? Unfortunately, the take-home message is that there just isn't enough …