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Weekly stem cell reads: COVID kidney, FDA letter, H3.3, EO Wilson

Happy New Year and get ready for another 364 more days of stem cell excitement and craziness in 2022. In the next day or two I'll post my predictions for this new year. Recommended reads EO Wilson obit by Carl Zimmer in NYT. Who's the next EO Wilson or someone like him with such big impact these days or in the future? …
EO Wilson

Top stem cell stories of 2021: COVID, diabetes, human embryos, clinics in court

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The past year was all over the place for the stem cell and regenerative medicine field. As you can see in my scoring of my 21 predictions for 2021, quite a few things were surprises in terms of what did and didn't happen. Here's an overview of the top stories of the year in our field. COVID-19 and cell therapies: …

Vote for Screamers awards for worst science hype of the year: Gorilla Glue, COVID, diabetes 'cure', more

The amount of biomedical science hype out there is mindboggling at times, but some media or other items really take the cake for being exceptionally bad. Today's post highlights the worst of the year 2021 as the candidates for my annual The Screamers science hype award. Click on the link in the previous sentence to see the winner last year, …
The Screamers Science Hype Awards.