by rss feed | Sep 19, 2021 | cancer, News Feeds, stem cells, weekly reads
I’ve been busy recently focusing more on grant and paper writing than reading papers on stem cells, but my piece on trying to de-extinct mammoths via cloning-like methods drew strong opinions on both sides. Recent news and resources on stem cells We’re...
by rss feed | Jul 18, 2021 | eggs from stem cells, News Feeds, Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP), stem cell banking, stem cell gametes, stem cells, weekly reads
The paper of the week is from Science on making ovarian follicles and actual eggs from stem cells. It’s just in mice, but this line of work tends to stir people up. We’ll dive into that in a moment. But first some good news. We’re up to 146...
by rss feed | Jul 11, 2021 | News Feeds, prostate cancer, stem cells, viruses
The paper of the week is An isoform of Dicer protects mammalian stem cells against multiple RNA viruses published in Science. The take-home from the abstract is that the data, “demonstrate that mammalian stem cells can protect themselves from some RNA viruses by...
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...
