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Weekly The Niche Reads: tooth repair, PRC2, beach pics

I managed to escape to do some hiking along the coast so I'm behind on my weekly reading and I'm just getting back here on The Niche. Here are some articles I'm hoping to catch up on in coming days including an interesting overview of stem cells for tooth repair. I sometimes have a wistful feeling that I would have …
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Fact-checking stem cell face cream: less than face value

Stem cell face cream. Taking a humorous look at what these might do.
I remember the first time I ran across an ad for a stem cell face cream and it wasn't pretty. This was about 10 years ago. The stem cell cream in question made several claims that seemed highly doubtful. In a sense what the cream's maker was selling was the idea of stem cell-based youth in a jar. What's in …

Autologous stem cell transplant vs allogeneic: all you need to know

There are many ways to classify different stem cells including yours versus someone else's cells, or in a clinical sense what we call an allogeneic versus autologous stem cell transplant. This post is focused on the difference between allogeneic (someone else's cells) and autologous (your own) stem cell injections. As a stem cell biologist I have been following and using …
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