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Weekly reads: NIH grants, side effect of darker hair, FDA warning, CRISPR

The last six months I've been spending even more time than usual writing NIH grants (and a few others). The last two weeks have been especially busy on this front as I am getting an R01 renewal out the door. My paper reading lately has been mostly related to the grant writing I'm doing. Still, some stem cell newsy kind …
Grant writers handbook, grants cartoon

Did COVID derail FDA stem cell clinic plan?

Mark Raza FDA stem cell clinic plan
The FDA stem cell clinic problem just continues to grow, while the agency has been oddly quiet in this space for more than a year. It's been a major disappointment, particularly as in recent years FDA leadership had implied that bold action was coming. Their own words spiked expectations that the agency would tackle unproven stem cell clinics in a …

Is embryonic stem cell research a target after Roe?

When I first started this blog back in 2010 the most contentious issue on the more political side of our field was federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. It was something you couldn't take for granted. Some history on embryonic stem cell funding in the US There were times back then when funding of embryonic stem cell research was …
Knoepfler lab stem cells