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Weekly stem cell reads: aging & cells, iPS cell mutations, gut, more

Does aging do something to time so it seems like as you get older that time goes by faster? Remember as a little kid when summer seemed to last forever and car rides could be agonizingly long? I've heard two theories on this. One is that the brain's baseline of activity slows down with aging while the speed of the …
Stem cells aging

'We don't want to freak people out': about that Jacob Hanna human embryo model startup

Jacob Hanna Renewal Bio
Stem cell biologist Jacob Hanna has a new startup called Renewal Bio. Its goal is to harvest cells or tissues from human embryo or fetus models for clinical use. I believe that their commercial ambitions have so far outstripped careful thought and discussion in the broader community of researchers. There are major risks here for the stem cell field as …