by rss feed | Apr 11, 2021 | News Feeds, stem cell publication, Stem Cell Research, stem cells, weekly reads
The first of the month often brings loads of new papers as new issues of journals come out so we have a wave of new stem cell papers. By the way, be sure to enter our stem cell picture contest to try to win $100 or a bundle of stem cell swag. There’s less than...
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 | Dec 21, 2020 | California, CIRM, CIRM 2.0, CIRM 3.0, Maria Millan, News Feeds, Prop 14, Prop. 14 California, stem cells
Approval of Prop 14 California last month to renew CIRM was one of the biggest state election developments of 2020. Yet it didn’t get much news coverage somehow. The exception is David Jensen over at California Stem Cell Report, who has been a great source of...
by rss feed | Dec 20, 2020 | extracellular vesicles, freezing cells, News Feeds, REGENERATIVE MEDICINE, Reprogramming, stem cells, Weekend Reads
What to read when there are almost an endless number of stem cell and regenerative medicine pubs? Here are some suggestions including what I would say is a very unusual Nature paper on making egg cells from stem cells. If this could be done safely with human cells all...
by rss feed | Dec 15, 2020 | adult stem cells, dedifferentiation, Embryonic stem cells, IPS cells, News Feeds, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, stem cells, where do stem cells come from?
We often talk about stem cells but there are some pretty basic, important questions that often go unanswered like ‘where do stem cells come from?’ It’s a more complicated and interesting question than you might think, and some of the answers point to...
by rss feed | Dec 1, 2020 | Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Clinic vaginal rejuvenation, Marketing, News Feeds, penis injections of stem cells, penis injections with stem cells, sex, stem cell vaginoplasty, stem cells, stem cells erectile dysfunction, stem cells penis, stem cells vagina, vaginal rejuvenation
When you read marketing terms like “stem cell treatment for sexual enhancement” or more specifically stem cells for “vaginal rejuvenation” what comes to mind? And are stem cell treatments a viable option for vaginal rejuvenation or sexual...