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The Niche
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Stem Cell & Regenerative Med Newsletter
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Stem cells for MS & other weekly reads: CRISPR, COVID & a bat cave, Huntington's
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About 1 million people are living with multiple sclerosis in the U.S. alone with millions of other cases around the world so a huge effort has gone into trying to find new approaches to the disease including stem cells for MS. We'll start our weekly recommended reads by talking about a new paper on MS and using cells called MSCs …
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Feds want $3M, prison for Liveyon founder in old fraud case
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Before starting the umbilical cord cell supplier and marketing firm Liveyon, John Kosolcharoen was involved in some alleged health care fraud. The feds brought a case against him related to prescription drugs. Older case coming to a head As Liveyon was having its misadventures in the stem cell clinic sphere, the status of that past fraud case brought by the …
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What is Matrigel, why a shortage, & alternatives?
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Stem cell research relies on some unusual reagents at times including a cell culture product called Matrigel. One of the challenges with such reagents is that if they suddenly are back-ordered it could bring some research to a halt. Matrigel has been in short supply for the last year or so. These products also tend to be expensive because they …
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