by rss feed | May 22, 2022 | brain, brain tumors, histone H3.3, News Feeds
There’s nothing quite like getting a new paper out as a scientist running a research lab so this week we can celebrate our new pediatric brain tumor study. I’ll start the weekly reads with that paper. Of course, getting new grants is amazing too but...
by rss feed | May 11, 2022 | Aging, brain, journal club, News Feeds, Young blood
A new Nature paper argues that young CSF fights brain aging. Young CSF vs. young blood CSF is the cerebrospinal fluid that surrounds the brains of young mice. The claim is that when young CSF is injected into the brain cavity of old mice, it makes the aged brains seem...
by rss feed | Oct 10, 2021 | Aging, brain, FDA, FDA guidance, MSCs, News Feeds, synolytics
This week marked the release of new draft FDA guidance on cell and gene therapies. Is the FDA kind of like the guidance counselor at school or more like the principal? It probably depends on many factors. I also find it funny how pretty much everyone in academia and...
by rss feed | Aug 17, 2021 | brain, brain organoids, News Feeds, organoids, Vision
Sometimes a paper really catches your eye like a new Cell Stem Cell pub reporting eye-like structures grown on brain organoids. The paper is Human brain organoids assemble functionally integrated bilateral optic vesicles. Let’s take a quick look at this paper,...
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 | Dec 8, 2020 | apoaequorin, brain, brain supplements, Focus Factor, jellyfish, News Feeds, Prevagen, Prevagen FDA, stem cells brain function, stem cells for memory, Supplements
I’ve been asked many times over the years if stem cell injections at for-profit clinics can help brain function, but recently the more common query is whether brain supplements such as Prevagen actually work. I’m skeptical of both unproven stem cell...
