by rss feed | Mar 5, 2025 | Gareth Fraser, News Feeds, odontogenic stem cells, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, shark teeth, teeth from stem cells
Sharks are experts at growing new teeth from stem cells. What if we humans could grow new teeth from stem cells too? It seems like a stretch. Compared to sharks, on tooth regrowth we are biological amateurs. While humans and some other animals like dogs have only two...
by rss feed | Dec 24, 2024 | News Feeds, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE
Did you predict the major events in the stem cell and regenerative medicine field this year? I tried and today’s post are the grades on my predictions. Prediction is a key part of being a scientist even if we may not think about it that much. For instance, we...
by rss feed | Dec 17, 2024 | News Feeds, Predictions, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, stem cell predictions
Toward the end of each year I make predictions for the stem cell and regenerative medicine field for the coming year. I’ve been doing this for more than a dozen years in various forms. In this post I’m looking at the (gene-edited, stemness enriched) tea...
by rss feed | Jun 2, 2024 | News Feeds, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, weekly reads
Do many in the regenerative medicine field have favorite types of stem cells? Some seem to think there’s a tension between those working on pluripotent stem cells like iPS cells and those working with MSCs. I don’t see it that way, though. Whatever stem...
by rss feed | Dec 31, 2023 | News Feeds, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, weekly reads
Years ago I wrote about how I wished humans could form a blastema, which is a special area of regeneration near an injury that drives tissue replacement. For example, when a lizard loses its tail to a pursuing bobcat, if it can regrow a new one that process will...
by rss feed | Aug 14, 2022 | News Feeds, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, weekly reads
I’ve tried to find some time to do some stem cell and other regenerative medicine reading too, but it’s been a busy week of teaching for me as a professor in our new academic year for the UC Davis School of Medicine. I help to teach the Histology part of...
