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Weekly reads: H3.3 on the brain, Texas bill, HSCs

It's always exciting when your lab has a new paper and my team just published a study knocking out the H3f3a gene in mice, which codes for histone H3.3 protein. We found that loss of this gene leads to lethality at a late stage of embryonic development. There were also indications of more specific phenotypes including a small brain and …
H3f3a, histone H3.3, knockout

Does Medicare cover stem cell therapy? Mostly no & it's poised to recoup tens of millions

Regenative labs, does Medicare cover stem cell therapy?
Does Medicare cover stem cell therapy? Readers of The Niche have regularly asked this question. They're curious about insurance coverage too. The answer is "no" in almost every case, with some notable exceptions I'll get to at the end of the post. Still, clinics appear to have already been charging Medicare for what collectively adds up to millions and perhaps …

Stem cell clinic 'doc' sentenced to 202 years in prison

I had heard that we might see criminal charges or convictions in 2022 for unproven stem cell clinic activities. This led to my prediction for last year of a criminal conviction in the stem cell clinic sphere. The prediction was correct as a Florida man selling unproven stem cell injections was been sentenced in late December to do time (I didn't …
Jimmy Lee Taylor going, stem cell clinic