by rss feed | Feb 15, 2021 | Alysson Muotri, Blog, brain, brain organoids, gene editing, Muotri, News Feeds, organoids, sexy science
Organoids and especially brain organoids, which are made from pluripotent stem cells, are one of the most interesting developmental biology technologies of the last half a dozen or so years. Still some folks can’t help but get carried away when thinking about...
by rss feed | Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, IPS cells, neural crest, News Feeds, pluripotent stem cells, weekly reads
There has been quite a lot of pubs on research on pluripotent stem cells published lately. These include some more surprising findings such as a potential role for pluripotency-related programming in neural crest development. Here the week’s recommended reads....
by rss feed | Feb 10, 2021 | Blog, COVID-19, News Feeds, Science hype, stem cell hype, stem cells, Stem cells for COVID-19
At times there’s been seriously bad journalism covering COVID-19 itself including implications of various things being a COVID cure. Of course, media coverage of stem cell research itself sometimes ends up being a train-wreck of hype too. More recently...
by rss feed | Feb 8, 2021 | Blog, mesenchymal cells, mesenchymal stem cells, MSCs, MSCs Mesenchymal stem stromal cells, News Feeds, stromal cells
I confess that I’m old enough to remember when the acronym MSC stood unambiguously for “mesenchymal stem cells”, but should it refer to a broader term like “mesenchymal cells”? The field has moved in that direction. I think that’s...
by rss feed | Feb 7, 2021 | Blog, Investigational New Drug Application or IND, News Feeds, stem cell law, stem cell lawsuit, the Niche, weekly reads
Here are my recommended weekly reads for The Niche readership for early February 2021 including COVID-19 and stem cell lawsuit updates, papers, and more. How many papers do you end up reading each week or month these days? More or less than before the pandemic?...
by rss feed | Feb 7, 2021 | Blog, Investigational New Drug Application or IND, News Feeds, stem cell law, stem cell lawsuit, the Niche, weekly reads
Here are my recommended weekly reads for The Niche readership for early February 2021 including COVID-19 and stem cell lawsuit updates, papers, and more. How many papers do you end up reading each week or month these days? More or less than before the pandemic?...
