by rss feed | Aug 15, 2021 | humor, News Feeds, organoids, weekly reads
It’s been a little quiet here on The Niche for the past week as I was off in Yellowstone National Park, but I’m back with this week’s recommended weekly reads including a section on organoids. First, I want to share a nature pic from the trip. A...
by rss feed | Mar 21, 2021 | blastoids, Blog, Cell Stem Cell, embryo engineering, embryos, News Feeds, organoids
This was an unusual week in that three papers in a sense collided together related to embryo production and growth, raising new research possibilities but also serious ethical questions. New research: what is an embryo & what is not? The first two Nature papers...
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 | Oct 18, 2020 | cancer, Cell Stem Cell, CIRM blog, COVID-19, Madeline Lancaster, News Feeds, organoids, organoids COVID-19, stem cell blog, The Stem Cellar, UC Davis Stem Cells
It’s usually a tossup as to whether my weekly reads skew more towards stem cells/regenerative medicine or cancer. Other times they are more enriched for genomics and epigenetics articles. Seeds of cancer in normal skin, Nature News & Views Engineering...
by rss feed | Oct 11, 2020 | cloning, COVID-19, CRISPR, CRISPR babies, H3.3, intestinal organoids, News Feeds, organoids, Trump COVID-19, Trump fetal tissue, Trump stem cells
As a researcher, is there ever enough time to get to everything that you want to read especially in newer areas like stem cells, organoids, and CRISPR, without even including non-scientific reads like Shakespeare or a new novel or something like that? Hopefully,...
