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Weekly reads: life extension & BioViva, clinics & anti-vax, axolotls, systemic CRISPR

Let's start off today's recommended reads with the topic of life extension. No controversy there, right? This comes to mind because of a new preprint from BioViva, Liz Parrish, and George Church. I'm hoping to cover this on our Stem Cell Channel on YouTube.  Gene therapy and life extension research The preprint is entitled, "New intranasal and injectable gene therapy …
BioViva CEO Liz Parrish in YouTube video.

NIH continuous submission for frequent ad hoc reviewers is quietly dropped

NIH continuous submission, NIH grant review
Something called NIH continuous submission for frequent grant reviewers is now a thing of the past. This is kind of a big deal. It's got to be a challenge for the NIH to get enough qualified reviewers to serve on study sections as grant reviewers. The recruitment of reviewers just probably got even harder with the new policy move by …

Review of Bioinformant, unproven stem cell clinic promotion, NIH & Pfizer as clients?

A few years ago a promotional website called Bioinformant popped up in the stem cell arena. It's very different in some ways than most other stem cell-related websites that I've seen. It's a marketing and promotion site. What's the backstory? I believe there's reason for concern here specifically related to Bioinformant promoting unproven stem cell clinics. What's in this article …
Bioinformant stem cell t-shirt

What is Wharton's jelly & its possible clinical uses?

Wharton's jelly umbilical cord H&E
For more than a year in my first job as a scientist I isolated cells from umbilical cord veins and then tossed the tissue away, never realizing there was more there that could be useful in the form of something called Wharton's jelly. What's in this article Umbilical cord histology & Wharton's jelly | What is Wharton's jelly? | Cells …