by rss feed | Mar 3, 2021 | Blog, De-extinction, deextinction, induced pluripotent stem cells, News Feeds, northern white rhino, rhino iPS cells
The title of a new article in Stem Cells and Development may seem audacious to those unfamiliar with the plight of the northern white rhino and the promise of induced pluripotent stem cells. But “Rewinding Extinction in the Northern White Rhinoceros” may turn out to...
by rss feed | Mar 1, 2021 | Blog, Fact-check, Lung, Lung Health Institue, Lung Health Institute, News Feeds, Stem cells for COPD
What should we make of clinics like the Lung Health Institute? These clinics sell unproven stem cell or regenerative therapies for lung disease. Overall, I’m extremely skeptical. I don’t believe it’s worth the cost. There are also going to be...
by rss feed | Feb 28, 2021 | Blog, brain organoids, clinicaltrials.gov, News Feeds, weekly reads
Sometimes change takes a very long time, but with brain organoids or advocating for better information for patients at Clinicaltrials.gov, after waiting you can see some interesting developments. These are two of the regenerative medicine stories of the week, along...
by rss feed | Feb 23, 2021 | biotechs, Blog, News Feeds, regenerative medicine advanced therapy (RMAT), regenerative medicine biotechs, RMAT list, stem cell biotech, stem cell stocks
Stem cell stocks, meaning cellular therapy biotech companies, face many challenges, but their clinical research is crucial. These biotechs have ups and downs, sometimes at the same time. This is kind of the standard of “life” as any biotech company. It is...
by rss feed | Feb 21, 2021 | Blog, brain stem cells, COVID-19, heart and stem cells, heart stem cell, News Feeds, NSC, Stem cells for COVID-19
There are weeks when it seems like papers on stem cells keep popping up. It can be a challenge to keep up with reading all the papers you want to read. Other times it is cell biology news that keeps breaking. The big news of the past week or so was unfortunately the...
by rss feed | Feb 18, 2021 | Autism, Blog, cord blood, Duke autism, Neil Riordan, News Feeds, Panama stem cell, Stem Cell Institute, The Stem Cell Institute
Somehow time has flown by so that I’ve been around for ages in the stem cell universe and some unproven stem cell clinic type firms, like the well-known Panama stem cell clinic that sells autism “treatments”, are also long-timers. It’s been an...
