by rss feed | Oct 10, 2024 | COVID-19, Exosomes for Long COVID, News Feeds, stem cells for Long COVID
Do stem cells for Long COVID make sense including for associated brain issues? Two readers of The Niche asked me this question recently. Let’s discuss it. Stem cells for Long COVID worth trying? What is Long COVID? A sizable fraction of people who get COVID-19...
by rss feed | Jul 26, 2023 | cell therapy for COVID, COVID-19, Direct Biologics, ExoFlo, News Feeds, Reviews
From the beginning of the pandemic, I have been mostly skeptical about the idea of cell therapy for COVID including stem cell therapies. However, at the same time, I’ve closely followed the data, especially up until 2022. Now having just had a nasty bout with...
by rss feed | May 18, 2022 | Cell Surgical Network, COVID-19, Deaths & Tributes, FDA, News Feeds
Over the past dozen years as I’ve written about stem cell clinics here on The Niche I’ve gotten to know many of those running the clinics including Dr. Mark Berman of Beverly Hills. It was therefore kind of a shock to learn that Berman died of last month....
by rss feed | Mar 6, 2022 | COVID-19, Multiple Sclerosis, News Feeds
About 1 million people are living with multiple sclerosis in the U.S. alone with millions of other cases around the world so a huge effort has gone into trying to find new approaches to the disease including stem cells for MS. We’ll start our weekly recommended...
by rss feed | Dec 30, 2021 | COVID-19, Cryo-cell, News Feeds, organoids, Year in review
The past year was all over the place for the stem cell and regenerative medicine field. As you can see in my scoring of my 21 predictions for 2021, quite a few things were surprises in terms of what did and didn’t happen. Here’s an overview of the top...
by rss feed | Dec 16, 2021 | cell biology, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccine, News Feeds
A type of human cells used in research called HEK cells or 293s has been much in the news lately, mainly related to COVID-19 vaccine research. There seem to be many misunderstandings about 293 cells so I thought I’d do this post to clear things up. I’ve...
