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Weekly reads: R01 grant trends, DPPA4, adult human neurogenesis debate

Great ideas and talented scientists are not enough as biomedical research needs funding and here in the U.S. that means having R01 grant success. The trends since 1995 are slowly heading the wrong way. The average age of getting your first R01 grant keeps getting older. There is also still a bit of a possible gender gap on R01s but …
NIH R01 grant trends

New suit for vision loss against Cell Surgical Network clinic

Dr. Alvaro Skupin listing on the Cell Surgical Network website. Screenshot.
A stem cell clinic in the Cell Surgical Network chain has just been sued allegedly for causing vision loss in a patient. By my count, across the U.S. this makes at least 5 patients who have said they were either totally blinded or had some major vision loss after getting stem cells injected into their eyes at various clinics. I …

Answering reader questions: snorting stem cells, Regenexx, exosomes

One of the most interesting parts of running The Niche is that I get all these questions about stem cells and related matters from readers. I try to answer questions regularly by email, but sometimes the volume catches up with me. For that reason I periodically try to do posts answering such questions, which has the added benefit of answering …
Brain-PET-scan, stem cells