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Weekly reads: Macchiarini pub, cloned journal, Mammoth genome, tweet of the week

Remember Paolo Macchiarini, the famous-turned-infamous so-called "stem cell surgeon" who ended up in legal trouble and with trial participants who died? Before we get into this we have a new feature for our weekly reads, which is the stem cell and regenerative medicine tweet of the week. See that at the bottom of the post. Another Macchiarini pub is toast …
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The role of belief in hard science: the VSEL case

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As we think about how much of a role belief should play in the hard sciences such as cell biology, a supposed cell type called VSEL or very-small embryonic stem cell-like cells comes to mind. For these guys it seems to me that the ratio of data to belief isn't great. VSELs have nine lives. I thought the idea of VSELs …